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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.
Hence Egypt, that is accounted the mother of Sciences, and Moses in regard of knowledge is preferred before the Egyptians; yet that was the seat also of Idolaters: and so the Astronomers, who lifted up themselves above others in their knowledge of heavenly things, brought in those monsters into heaven, and attributed worship to them, and in their worship of their gods they added many feasts and sports. Thus they invented an happiness, which Austin calleth Scyllaeum bonum, consisting of humane and brutish parts. If you ask how this natural light cometh to be thus obscured; I answer, three ways: 1. By ill education. This 1is like the first concoction, or the first settling of the limbs of a man. Secondly, By long custom and degeneration. Hence some Nations have by their public laws allowed gross sins lawful; as some Nations have allowed robberies, some incest, some that all old men should be thrown down headlong a steep hill. Thirdly, By the just judgement of God; therefore three times in Rom. 1. God is said to give them up to sin.
Hence Egypt, that is accounted the mother of Sciences, and Moses in regard of knowledge is preferred before the Egyptians; yet that was the seat also of Idolaters: and so the Astronomers, who lifted up themselves above others in their knowledge of heavenly things, brought in those monsters into heaven, and attributed worship to them, and in their worship of their gods they added many feasts and sports. Thus they invented an happinesse, which Austin calleth Scyllaeum bonum, consisting of humane and brutish parts. If you ask how this naturall light cometh to be thus obscured; I answer, three waies: 1. By ill education. This 1is like the first concoction, or the first settling of the limbs of a man. Secondly, By long custome and degeneration. Hence some Nations have by their publike lawes allowed grosse sins lawfull; as some Nations have allowed robberies, some incest, some that all old men should be throwne downe headlong a steep hill. Thirdly, By the just judgement of God; therefore three times in Rom. 1. God is said to give them up to sin.
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