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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. From the evil threatened, and the good promised. For, while 1there is a mere command, so long it is a law only; but when it is further confirmed by promises and threatenings, then it becomes a Covenant. And if that position be true of some, which maketh the tree of life a sacrament, then here was not only nudum pactum, a mere covenant; but a seal also to confirm it. And certainly, being God was not bound to give Adam eternal life if he did obey, seeing he owed obedience to God under the title of a creature, it was of his mere goodness to become engaged in a promise for this. I know it's a Question by some, Whether Adam, upon his obedience, should have been translated into heaven, or confirmed only in that natural life, which was marvellous happy: But either way would have been by mere promise of God, not by any natural necessity. Life must be extended as far as death; now the death threatened was not only a bodily death, but death in hell: why therefore should not the life promised be a life in heaven?
1. From the evill threatned, and the good promised. For, while 1there is a meere command, so long it is a law onely; but when it is further confirmed by promises and threatnings, then it becomes a Covenant. And if that position be true of some, which maketh the tree of life a sacrament, then here was not onely nudum pactum, a meer covenant; but a seale also to confirme it. And certainly, being God was not bound to give Adam eternall life if he did obey, seeing he owed obedience to God under the title of a creature, it was of his meere goodnesse to become ingaged in a promise for this. I know it's a Question by some, Whether Adam, upon his obedience, should have been translated into heaven, or confirmed onely in that naturall life, which was marvellous happy: But either way would have been by meere promise of God, not by any naturall necessity. Life must be extended as far as death; now the death threatned was not only a bodily death, but death in hell: why therefore should not the life promised be a life in heaven?
- 1That God dealt with Adam by way of Covenant, appears, 1. From evil threatened, and good promised.That God dealt with Adam by way of Covenant, appeares, 1. From evill threatned, and good promised.