A41521:78
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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And yet I am confident the Poet was not apprehensive of his having violated any enacted Law, or of being obnoxious to a Penalty, did not at all fear the Roman Axes, or Fasces, tho his Verses did a little deviate from the generally approved Doctrine of Satyr. Another Roman Poet, by the same Word, expresseth the due disposition, or orderly placing of things.
And yet I am confident the Poet was not apprehensive of his having violated any enacted Law, or of being obnoxious to a Penalty, did not at all fear the Roman Axes, or Fasces, tho his Verses did a little deviate from the generally approv'd Doctrine of Satyr. Another Roman Poet, by the same Word, expresseth the due disposition, or orderly placing of things.
Vitta coercebat positos sine Lege Capillos. Ovid. Metamorph. lib. 1. v. 477.
Innumerable Examples might be given, but a few may suffice to show how little stress is to be laid upon the uncertain sound of a Word, which in all these Languages is so variously used; and to direct us, that wherever we find the Gospel named a Law, in the Hebrew of the Old Testament, or in the Greek of the New, or in the Greek and Latin Fathers, or Protestant Divines, we must not, unless we would suffer our selves to be easily imposed on by an ambiguous Phrase, presently imagine it to mean a new Rule of Duty enacted with a Sanction.
Innumerable Examples might be given, but a few may suffice to shew how little stress is to be laid upon the uncertain sound of a Word, which in all these Languages is so variously us'd; and to direct us, that wherever we find the Gospel nam'd a Law, in the Hebrew of the Old Testament, or in the Greek of the New, or in the Greek and Latin Fathers, or Protestant Divines, we must not, unless we would suffer our selves to be easily impos'd on by an ambiguous Phrase, presently imagine it to mean a new Rule of Duty enacted with a Sanction.