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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. In the next place, we do not hold in such a manner his 1righteousness and holiness to be natural to him, as that we deny every thing to Adam that was supernatural; for, no question but the favour of God, which he did enjoy, may well be called supernatural; so also that actual help of God (say some,) which was to be continued to him: For howsoever the principle, and habit as it were of righteousness, was natural to him; yet to have help from God to continue and persevere, was supernatural. 2Even as you see the eye, though it hath a natural power to see, yet there is a further requisite to the act of seeing, which is light, without which it could not be.
2. In the next place, we doe not hold in such a manner his 1righteousnesse and holinesse to be naturall to him, as that we deny every thing to Adam that was supernaturall; for, no question but the favour of God, which he did enjoy, may well be called supernaturall; so also that actuall help of God (say some,) which was to be continued to him: For howsoever the principle, and habit as it were of righteousnesse, was naturall to him; yet to have help from God to continue and persevere, was supernaturall. 2Even as you see the eye, though it hath a naturall power to see, yet there is a further requisite to the act of seeing, which is light, without which it could not be.
- 12. The principle and habit of righteousness was natural to Adam, but help from God to persevere, supernatural.2. The principle and habit of righteousnesse was naturall to Adam, but help from God to persevere, supernaturall.
- 2Adam in the state of innocency needed not Christ by way of reconciliation, but of conservation in righteousness.Adam in the state of innocency needed not Christ by way of reconciliation, but of conservation in righteousnesse.