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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.
The second Question is, Whether Christ did intervene in his help to Adam, so that he needed Christ in that state. For here we see ⟨p. 130⟩many learned and sound men differ: some say, that Christ, being only a Mediator of reconciliation, could no ways be considered in any respect to Adam; for God and he were friends: Others again make the grace of Christ universally necessary, even to Angels, and Adam; saying that proposition, [Without me ye can do nothing,] is of everlasting truth, and did extend to Adam, not indeed by way of pardon or reconciliation, but by way of preservation and conservation in the state of righteousness: Thus those excellent pillars in the Church of God, Calvin, Bucer, and Zanchy, with others. Now for the clearing of this truth, we must consider these particulars:
The second Question is, Whether Christ did intervene in his help to Adam, so that he needed Christ in that state. For here we see ⟨p. 130⟩many learned and sound men differ: some say, that Christ, being onely a Mediatour of reconciliation, could no waies be considered in any respect to Adam; for God and he were friends: Others againe make the grace of Christ universally necessary, even to Angels, and Adam; saying that proposition, [Without mee ye can doe nothing,] is of everlasting truth, and did extend to Adam, not indeed by way of pardon or reconciliation, but by way of preservation and conservation in the state of righteousnesse: Thus those excellent pillars in the Church of God, Calvin, Bucer, and Zanchy, with others. Now for the clearing of this truth, we must consider these particulars:
1. That it cannot be denied, but that Christ, as the second Person of the Trinity, did create and make all things. This is to be diligently maintained against those cursed opinions that begin, even publicly, to deny the Deity of Christ. Now there are three general ways of proving Christ to be God: 1. In that the name Jehovah, and God, is applied to him, without any such respect as to other creatures. 2. In that he hath the attributes of God, which are Omnipotency and Omniscience, &c. 3. In that he doth the works which God only can do; such are, raising up from the dead by his own power, and creation: Now that Christ doth create and sustain all things appeareth,