A41521:68
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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CHAP. V.
How uncertain an Argument is framed, from the sound of the word Law, to prove the Gospel to be such, evinced from the various significations of that Word as used by Roman Authors. That the Latin Fathers named the Gospel a Law, as it is the Doctrine of Christ.
How uncertain an Argument is fram'd, from the sound of the word Law, to prove the Gospel to be such, evinc'd from the various significations of that Word as us'd by Roman Authors. That the Latin Fathers nam'd the Gospel a Law, as it is the Doctrine of Christ.
I Now should heartily rejoice to be excused from searching any other Records but those of the Bible, if my Learned Brother did not bring me from Greek to Latin Authors, whom he musters in greater multitudes. To rescue them therefore from his Abuse, in fastening on them a Meaning of which they never had a thought, it will be needful to state the Sense of the word Law in the Roman Language, as well as I have done it in the Hebrew and Greek.
I Now should heartily rejoice to be excus'd from searching any other Records but those of the Bible, if my Learned Brother did not bring me from Greek to Latin Authors, whom he musters in greater multitudes. To rescue them therefore from his Abuse, in fastning on them a Meaning of which they never had a thought, it will be needful to state the Sense of the word Law in the Roman Language, as well as I have done it in the Hebrew and Greek.