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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
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4. You have the manner of delivering them, God spake them, 1saying: which is not to be understood, as if God were a body, and had organs of speaking; but only that he formed a voice in the air. Now here ariseth a great difficulty, because of Acts 7. where he that spake to Moses on Mount Sinai is called the Angel: This maketh the Papists and Grotius go upon a dangerous foundation, That God did not immediately deliver the Law, but an Angel; who is therefore called God, and assumes unto himself the name Jehovah, because he did represent the person of God. But this is confuted by the Learned. I shall not preface any further, but raise this Doctrine, That God delivered a Law to Doctr. the people of Israel by the hand or ministry of Moses.
4. You have the manner of delivering them, God spake them, 1saying: which is not to be understood, as if God were a body, and had organs of speaking; but onely that he formed a voice in the aire. Now here ariseth a great difficulty, because of Acts 7. where he that spake to Moses on Mount Sinai is called the Angell: This maketh the Papists and Grotius goe upon a dangerous foundation, That God did not immediately deliver the Law, but an Angell; who is therefore called God, and assumes unto himselfe the name Jehovah, because he did represent the person of God. But this is confuted by the Learned. I shall not preface any further, but raise this Doctrine, That God delivered a Law to Doctr. the people of Israel by the hand or ministry of Moses.
- 14. The manner of delivering it.
I shall (God willing) handle this point doctrinally in all the theological considerations about the Law: and,