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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
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3. Do not affect applause among people, as having found some new nigher way about Christ and grace, then others have. I have 1observed this itching humour in the Antinomian Sermons printed; where they will call upon their hearers to mark; it may be they shall hear that, which they have not heard before, when the thing is either false; or, if it be true, is no more then ordinarily is taught by others. But now, when men desire to be applauded in the world, they suggest to their inward disciples, as if they had found out some new unheard thing; and their followers broach it abroad, and so they come to be exalted. thus they do like Psaphon the Libyan: It's reported of him, that he kept ten tame birds at home, and taught them to sing, Magnus deus Psaphon; and when he had done so, he let these birds fly into the woods and mountains, where all the other birds learned the same song of them: which the Libyans perceiving, and thinking it no plot, but a divine accident, decreed 2to sacrifice to Psaphon, and to put him in the number of their Gods.
3. Do not affect applause among people, as having found some new nigher way about Christ and grace, then others have. I have 1observed this itching humor in the Antinomian Sermons printed; where they will call upon their hearers to mark; it may be they shall heare that, which they have not heard before, when the thing is either false; or, if it be true, is no more then ordinarily is taught by others. But now, when men desire to be applauded in the world, they suggest to their inward disciples, as if they had found out some new unheard thing; and their followers broach it abroad, and so they come to be exalted. thus they do like Psaphon the Libyan: It's reported of him, that he kept ten tame birds at home, and taught them to sing, Magnus deus Psaphon; and when he had done so, he let these birds flye into the woods and mountains, where all the other birds learned the same song of them: which the Libyans perceiving, and thinking it no plot, but a divine accident, decreed 2to sacrifice to Psaphon, and to put him in the number of their Gods.