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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.
WE are at this time to demolish one of the strongest holds that the Adversary hath: For, it may be supposed, that the eighth verse cannot be so much against them, as the ninth is for them: Therefore Austin observeth well, The Apostle (saith he) joining two things, as it were contrary, together, doth monere & movere, both admonish and provoke the Reader to find out the true answer to this question, how both of them can be true. We must therefore say to these places, as Moses did to the two Israelites fighting, Why fall you out, seeing you are brethren? Austin improveth the objection thus, If the Law be good, when used lawfully, and none but the righteous man can use it lawfully, how then should it not be but to him, who only can make the true use of it? Therefore, for ⟨p. 48⟩the better understanding of these words, let us consider, who they are that are said to know: and secondly, what is said to be known.
WE are at this time to demolish one of the strongest holds that the Adversary hath: For, it may be supposed, that the eighth verse cannot be so much against them, as the ninth is for them: Therefore Austin observeth well, The Apostle (saith he) joyning two things, as it were contrary, together, doth monere & movere, both admonish and provoke the Reader to find out the true answer to this question, how both of them can be true. We must therefore say to these places, as Moses did to the two Israelites fighting, Why fall you out, seeing you are brethren? Austin improveth the objection thus, If the Law be good, when used lawfully, and none but the righteous man can use it lawfully, how then should it not be but to him, who onely can make the true use of it? Therefore, for ⟨p. 48⟩the better understanding of these words, let us consider, who they are that are said to know: and secondly, what is said to be knowne.
The subject knowing is here in this Verse in the singular number, in the Verse before in the plural: it's therefore doubted, whether this be affirmed of the same persons or no. Some Expositors think those in the eighth, and these in the ninth, are the same, and that the Apostle doth change the number from the plural to the singular; which is very frequent in Scripture: as,