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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
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3. It is wholly unable to work any good thing. All this while we 1have considered the power of man but as in the lower region; and if you do consider him, in reference to good things, so he hath no power, or will, or free-will at all; but, as Austin said before Luther, it's servum arbitrium, a servant, and enslaved will to sin only. Indeed we have not lost our understandings or our wills, but to know or will that which is good, is wholly lost: Though we have not lost the will, yet we have the rectitude in that will, whereby we should incline to good. And this may be proved from many Arguments:
3. It is wholly unable to work any good thing. All this while we 1have considered the power of man but as in the lower region; and if you doe consider him, in reference to good things, so he hath no power, or will, or free-will at all; but, as Austin said before Luther, it's servum arbitrium, a servant, and inslaved will to sin onely. Indeed we have not lost our understandings or our wills, but to know or will that which is good, is wholly lost: Though we have not lost the will, yet we have the rectitude in that will, whereby we should encline to good. And this may be proved from many Arguments:
- 1Man by the power of nature wholly unable to perform good actions.Man by the power of nature wholly unable to performe good actions.
1. From all those places of Scripture which declare our estate 1to be full of sin and corruption, and altogether wicked. Now, Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Hence the Father compareth us well to the ship in a tempest, that is destitute of a Pilot: we are dashed continually upon rocks, though this speak of the negative only, not the positive corruption.