A41521:84
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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Now these are the properest Judges to decide the Signification of a Word in that Language, wherein they not only wrote, but it was their native Tongue, which their Mothers taught them as soon as they were able to form a Voice.
There then nothing more remains needful to remove my Learned Brother's multiplied Citations out of the Latin Fathers, and Protestant Writers, which he thinks to be very much to his Purpose, but to show that they frequently by the word Law mean no more than a Doctrine; and when I shall have, by some few Instances, done this, all his Authorities will be easily answered.
There then nothing more remains needful to remove my Learned Brother's multiplied Citations out of the Latin Fathers, and Protestant Writers, which he thinks to be very much to his Purpose, but to shew that they frequently by the word Law mean no more than a Doctrine; and when I shall have, by some few Instances, done this, all his Authorities will be easily answer'd.
Cyprian, whom he summons as a Witness for his Cause, (and the mistaken Evidence we shall afterward examine) means no more by the Evangelical Law, than the Doctrine which Christ hath given us. For having before expressed, how Christ had by his Example and Word taught us the manner of administering the Lord's Supper, this our Instruction from our Saviour he calls the Evangelical Law. bAnd concerning this thing also, (says he) we may send our Epistles to our Brethren, that the Evangelical Law, and the declared Doctrine of our Lord, may be observed, and that they may not depart from what Christ hath taught and practised.
Cyprian, whom he summons as a Witness for his Cause, (and the mistaken Evidence we shall afterward examine) means no more by the Evangelical Law, than the Doctrine which Christ hath given us. For having before express'd, how Christ had by his Example and Word taught us the manner of administring the Lord's Supper, this our Instruction from our Saviour he calls the Evangelical Law.