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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.
2. Why God would give a positive law, besides that of the natural 1law in his heart. There are these reasons commonly given:
2. Why God would give a positive law, besides that of the naturall 1law in his heart. There are these reasons commonly given:
- 1God, besides the natural law engraven in Adams heart, did give a positive law:God, besides the naturall law ingraven in Adams heart, did give a positive law:
1. That hereby Gods dominion and power over man might be the more acknowledged: for, to obey the natural law, might be a necessary condition, and not an act of the Will: Even as the Heathens do abstain from many sins, not because forbidden by 1God, but as dissonant to their natural reason. And even among Christians there is a great deal of difference between good actions, that are done because God commands, and because of a natural conscience. These two principles make the same actions to differ in their whole nature. Therefore God would try Adam by some positive law, that so the dominion and power which God had over him might be the more eminently held forth: and therefore Adam in this was not to consider the greatness or goodness of the matter, but the will of the commander.
1. That hereby Gods dominion and power over man might be the more acknowledged: for, to obey the naturall law, might be a necessary condition, and not an act of the Will: Even as the Heathens doe abstaine from many sins, not because forbidden by 1God, but as dissonant to their naturall reason. And even among Christians there is a great deale of difference between good actions, that are done because God commands, and because of a naturall conscience. These two principles make the same actions to differ in their whole nature. Therefore God would try Adam by some positive law, that so the dominion and power which God had over him might be the more eminently held forth: and therefore Adam in this was not to consider the greatnesse or goodnesse of the matter, but the will of the commander.