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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.
4. Consider why God will deal with man in a covenant way, rather then in a mere absolute supreme way. There may be these Reasons:
4. Consider why God will deale with man in a covenant way, rather then in a meere absolute supreme way. There may be these Reasons:
1. That God might hereby sweeten and endear himself to us. For, 1whereas he might require all obedience from us, and annihilate us at last, or at least not vouchsafe heaven and everlasting happiness; to show how good and loving he is, he will reward that most bountifully, which is otherwise due to him: for God did 2not make man, because he needed him, but that there might be objects to whom he would communicate his love. Thou needest not my goodness, or, that extendeth not to thee, saith David. It's Austins expression, The earth doth far otherwise dry up, or swallow the water, thirsting for it, then the Sun beams, which also consume the water: the one doth it indigentiâ, out of want; the other potentiâ, out of power and strength: so that Adam could not but have thankful and loving thoughts of God, that would thus condescend.
1. That God might hereby sweeten and indeare himselfe to us. For, 1whereas he might require all obedience from us, and annihilate us at last, or at least not vouchsafe heaven and everlasting happinesse; to shew how good and loving he is, he will reward that most bountifully, which is otherwise due to him: for God did 2not make man, because he needed him, but that there might be objects to whom he would communicate his love. Thou needest not my goodnesse, or, that extendeth not to thee, saith David. It's Austins expression, The earth doth farre otherwise dry up, or swallow the water, thirsting for it, then the Sun beames, which also consume the water: the one doth it indigentiâ, out of want; the other potentiâ, out of power and strength: so that Adam could not but have thankfull and loving thoughts of God, that would thus condescend.