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Vindiciæ legis
Vindiciæ legis: or, A vindication of the moral law and the covenants, from the errors of papists, Arminians, Socinians, and more especially, Antinomians. In XXIX. lectures, preached at Laurence-Jury, London. / By Anthony Burgess, preacher of Gods Word.Vindiciæ legis: or, A vindication of the morall law and the covenants, from the errours of papists, Arminians, Socinians, and more especially, Antinomians. In XXIX. lectures, preached at Laurence-Jury, London. / By Anthony Burgess, preacher of Gods Word.
London: printed by James Young for Thomas Underhill, 1646
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.
I shall say no more of this, then by answering a main doubt.
Object. If good works be still necessarily requisite, why then is not the covenant of grace still a covenant of works: not as at first in Adam, when they were to be perfect and entire; but by grace, pardoning the imperfection of them, in which sense the Arminians affirm it?
Object. If good workes be still necessarily requisite, why then is not the covenant of grace still a covenant of works: not as at first in Adam, when they were to be perfect and entire; but by grace, pardoning the imperfection of them, in which sense the Arminians affirme it?
Answ. Although good works be requisite in the man justified or saved, yet it's not a covenant of works, but faith: and the reason is, because faith only is the instrument that receiveth justification and eternal life; and good works are to qualify the subject believing, but not the instrument to receive the covenant: so that faith only is the condition that doth receive the covenant, but yet that a man believe, is required the change of the whole man; and that faith only hath such a receiving ⟨p. 47⟩nature, shall be proved hereafter (God willing.)
Answ. Although good workes be requisite in the man justified or saved, yet it's not a covenant of workes, but faith: and the reason is, because faith onely is the instrument that receiveth justification and eternall life; and good workes are to qualifie the subject beleeving, but not the instrument to receive the covenant: so that faith onely is the condition that doth receive the covenant, but yet that a man beleeve, is required the change of the whole man; and that faith onely hath such a receiving