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A discourse of the true nature of the Gospel demonstrating that it is no…
A discourse of the true nature of the Gospel demonstrating that it is no new law, but a pure doctrine of grace : in answer to the Reverend Mr. Lorimer's Apology / by Tho. Goodwin ...
London: printed by J. Darby, 1695
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As to the Testimony of the Leiden Professors, they only mean that the Gospel in a large and improper Sense may be termed a Law, because there are Precepts, Commands, and Threatenings in the Books of the New Testament. But those worthy Professors, when they treat of the Gospel in its strict Signification, ⟨p. 67⟩they define it to be only a pure Word of Grace. For, says Polyander, who was one of them;a The Gospel specially taken, and restrained to the Exhibition of Christ, first denotes the History of Christ manifested in the Flesh, Mark 12. Secondly, it is used for the joyful Doctrine and Preaching concerning the Reconciliation of Men who are Sinners, with God, by the free Remission of their Sins obtained for them by the expiatory Death of Christ, indefinitely offered to any one, revealed to the Poor in Spirit, and Babes; but singularly applied to the Believers, for their Salvation, and for the Manifestation, and eternal Glory of the Divine Mercy in Conjunction with Justice: 1 Cor. 9. 14, 15. This is in the same Disputation cited by my Brother. And a little after the same Learned Polyander renounceth the Opinion of the Schoolmen and Monks, asserting the Gospel to be a new Law; and disclaims the Arminian and Socinian Doctrines, which attribute to the Gospel as a new Law, new Precepts that are proper and peculiar to it. Whether then these Reverend Professors ever once thought the Gospel, strictly and properly taken, to be a Law, let any one judg.
As to the Testimony of the Leyden Professors, they only mean that the Gospel in a large and improper Sense may be term'd a Law, because there are Precepts, Commands, and Threatnings in the Books of the New Testament. But those worthy Professors, when they treat of the Gospel in its strict Signification, ⟨p. 67⟩they define it to be only a pure Word of Grace. For, says Polyander, who was one of them;a The Gospel specially taken, and restrain'd to the Exhibition of Christ, first denotes the History of Christ manifested in the Flesh,