A30249:757
Vindiciae legis, or, A vindication of the moral law and the covenants, from the…Vindiciae legis, or, A vindication of the morall law and the covenants, from the…
Vindiciae legis, or, A vindication of the moral law and the covenants, from the errors of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and more especially, Antinomians in XXX lectures, preached at Laurence-Jury, London / by Anthony Burgess ...Vindiciae legis, or, A vindication of the morall law and the covenants, from the errours of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and more especially, Antinomians in XXX lectures, preached at Laurence-Jury, London / by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by James Young for Thomas Underhill, 1647
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
These are Propositions of theirs set down by Luther, against which he had his disputations, Vol. 1. Sousselberge, lib. contra Antin. pag. 38. relateth more: as,
These are Propositions of theirs set downe by Luther, against which he had his disputations, Vol. 1. Sousselberge, lib. contra Antin. pag. 38. relateth more: as,
1. The Law doth not show good works, neither is it to be preached that we may do them. 2. The Law is not given to Christians; therefore they are not to be reproved by the Law. 3. The Preachers under the Gospel are only to preach the Gospel, not the Law; because Christ did not say, Preach the Law, but Gospel to every creature. 4. The legal Sermons of the Prophets do not at all belong to us. 5. To say that the Law is a rule of good works, is blasphemy in Divinity.
1. The Law doth not shew good works, neither is it to be preached that we may do them. 2. The Law is not given to Christians; therefore they are not to be reproved by the Law. 3. The Preachers under the Gospel are onely to preach the Gospel, not the Law; because Christ did not say, Preach the Law, but Gospel to every creature. 4. The legall Sermons of the Prophets doe not at all belong to us. 5. To say that the Law is a rule of good works, is blasphemy in Divinity.
Thus you see how directly these oppose the Law, and therefore come under our Saviours condemnation in the Text: yet at other times, the proper state of the Question between the Orthodox & Antinomists, seemeth to be, not, Whether a godly man do not delight in the Law, and do the works of the Law; but, Whether he doth it, Lege docent, urgent, & mandante, the Law ⟨p. 278⟩teaching, urging, and commanding: As for the latter Antinomians, Doctor Taylor, and Mr. Burton, who preached, and wrote against them, do record the same opinions of them. Doctor Taylor in his Preface to his Book against them, saith, One preached, that the whole Law, since Christs death, is wholly abrogated and abolished. Another, that to teach obedience to the Law, is Popery. Another, That to do any thing, because God commands us; or to forbear any sin, because God forbids us, is a sign of a moral man, and of a dead and unsound Christian. Others deliver, That the Law is not to be preached, and they that do so, are Legal Preachers.