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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
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.
Or sixthly, If it were to show, that there cannot be assurance before justification, or that to rely upon Christ for pardon, it is not necessary I should know whether I have truly repented, or no; This were also of another nature.
Or sixthly, If it were to shew, that there cannot be assurance before justification, or that to relye upon Christ for pardon, it is not necessary I should know whether I have truly repented, or no; This were also of another nature.
Therefore let us see what prejudicial inferences they gather from this doctrine of Justification. I know, the proper place of handling this will come, when we speak of that point; but yet, to give some antidote against their errors, I will name some few: as, 1. Denying them to be a way to heaven. Thus one expressly 1(Sect. 4. on Christ being a way, pag. 68.) It is a received conceit among many persons, that our obedience is a way to heaven; though it be not causa, yet it's via ad regnum: Now this he labours to confute. As for the speech it self, Divines have it out of Bernard, where, among other encomium's of good works, calling them Seeds of hope, incentives of love, signs of hidden Predestination, and presages of future happiness, Spei quaedam seminaria, charitatis incentiva, occultae Praedestinationis indicia, futurae felicitatis praesagia, he addeth this, The way to the Kingdom, not the cause of reigning, Via regni, non causa regnandi. Now it's true, that they are not a way in that sense that Christ is called a Way, no more then the spiritual life of a Christian is life in that sense Christ stileth himself Life; for, here he understands it of himself, as the causal and meritorious way: Therefore there are Articles added to every one, [Greek or Hebrew] and that which followeth makes it clear, No man can come to the Father, but by me.
Therefore let us see what prejudiciall inferences they gather from this doctrine of Justification. I know, the proper place of handling this will come, when we speak of that point; but yet, to give some antidote against their errours, I will name some few: as, 1. Denying them to be a way to heaven. Thus one expresly