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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.
READER,
IF the Father said true, that Books were the fruit of the mind, as children are of the 1body, natural affection must compel me, (as she did for Moses) to provide some Ark for the safety of this Book, lest it perish: And I know no better way, then to give thee some account of the matter and method of it, if thou vouchsafe to peruse it.
IF the Father said true, that Books were the fruit of the mind, as children are of the 1body, naturall affection must compell mee, (as she did for Moses) to provide some Ark for the safety of this Book, lest it perish: And I know no better way, then to give thee some account of the matter and method of it, if thou vouchsafe to peruse it.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew]. Clem. Alex.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Clem. Alex.
For the matter of it, it is chiefly improved to maintain the dignity and use of the Moral Law against late errors about it, and thereupon I have been forced to consult more with those books that are filled with such poison, then to peruse those Authors that have maintained the truth; and I found the looking upon their Heterodoxies a special help to propagate and confirm the truth, as that Roman Painter curiously drew the picture of an Horse, by constant looking upon an Ass, avoiding whatsoever he saw ridiculous or deformed in him. I acknowledge this work above my strength, it being a subject not much handled by former writers, and so I could not be guilty of that fault, [Greek or Hebrew]: but I say, as Austin, Ego parvas vires habeo, sed Dei Verbum magnas habet; I have small strength, but the Word and Truth of God hath great power. None is more unwilling then my self to come in print; but, because he that