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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. What Law this delivered in Mount Sinai is, and what kinds of 1laws there are, and why it's called the Moral Law. It is plain by Exod. 20. and cap. 21. All the laws that the Jews had were then given to Moses, to deliver unto the people, only that which we call the Moral Law, had the great preheminency, being twice written by God himself in tables of stone. Now the whole body of these laws is, according to the matter and object, divided into Moral, Ceremonial, and Judicial. We will not meddle with the Queries that may be made about this division. We may, without any danger, receive it, and that Law which we are to treat upon is the Moral Law. And here it must be acknowledged, that the different use of the word Moral, hath bred many perplexities; yea in whatsoever controversy it hath been used, it hath caused mistakes. The word Moral, or Morally, is used in the controversy of the Sabbath, in the question about converting grace; in the doctrine of the Sacraments, about their efficacy and causality; and so in this question, about a Law, what makes it moral. Now in this present doubt, howsoever the word Moral beareth no such force in the notation of it, (it being as much as that which directeth and obligeth about manners, and so applicable even to the Judicial and Ceremonial: and these are in a sense commanded in the Moral Law, though they be not perpetual) as to denote that which is perpetual and always obliging; yet thus it is meant here, when we speak of a thing moral, as opposite to that, which is binding but for a time.
2. What Law this delivered in Mount Sinai is, and what kinds of 1lawes there are, and why it's called the Morall Law. It is plaine by Exod. 20. and cap. 21. All the lawes that the Jewes had were then given to Moses, to deliver unto the people, onely that which we call the Morall Law, had the great preheminency, being twice written by God himselfe in tables of stone. Now the whole body of these lawes is, according to the matter and object, divided into Morall, Ceremoniall, and Judiciall. We will not meddle with the Queries that may be made about this division. We may, without any danger, receive it, and that Law which we are to treat upon is the Morall Law. And here it must be acknowledged, that the different use of the word Morall, hath bred many perplexities; yea in whatsoever controversie it hath been used, it hath caused mistakes. The word Morall, or Morally, is used in the controversie of the Sabbath, in the question about converting grace; in the doctrine of the Sacraments, about their efficacy and causality; and so in this question, about a Law, what makes it morall. Now in this present doubt, howsoever the word Morall beareth no such force in the notation of it, (it being as much as that which directeth and obligeth about manners, and so applicable even to the Judiciall and Ceremoniall: and these are in a sense commanded in the Morall Law, though they be not perpetuall) as to denote that which is perpetuall and alwaies obliging; yet thus it is meant here, when we speak of a thing morall, as opposite to that, which is binding but for a time.