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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.
1. To have all the worship of God sensible and pleasing to the eye. It 1was well called by Parisiensis, a madness in some, who doubted not to say, The Church was better ruled by the inventions of men then by the Scriptures. The people of Israel would have sensible gods, that they might see them: and certainly men do as much delight in sensible pompous worship, as children do in gay babies; therefore the Prophet speaketh of their goodly images. But all this ariseth, because they are ignorant of spiritual worship, and cannot tell how to make spiritual advantage from God. It was well said by one, that A superstitious man is Gods flatterer, and not his friend; he is more officious then needs: and where a man is busie ubi non oportet, (said Tertullian) he is negligent ubi oportet. Such carnal sensible worshippers are well compared to those that, because they have no children, delight in birds and dogs; so because they have no true graces of the Spirit of God, they delight in these imitations.
1. To have all the worship of God sensible and pleasing to the eye. It 1was well called by Parisiensis, a madness in some, who doubted not to say, The Church was better ruled by the inventions of men then by the Scriptures. The people of Israel would have sensible gods, that they might see them: and certainly men doe as much delight in sensible pompous worship, as children doe in gay babies; therefore the Prophet speaketh of their goodly images. But all this ariseth, because they are ignorant of spirituall worship, and cannot tell how to make spirituall advantage from God. It was well said by one, that A superstitious man is Gods flatterer, and not his friend; hee is more officious then needes: and where a man is busie ubi non oportet, (said Tertullian) he is negligent ubi oportet. Such carnall sensible worshippers are well compared to those that, because they have no children, delight in birds and dogs; so because they have no true graces of the Spirit of God, they delight in these imitations.
- 11. Because it would have all the worship of God sensible and pleasing to the eye.1. Because it would have all the worship of God sensible and pleasing to the eie.