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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.
7. In respect of the adjuncts of it, which the Scripture attributeth 1to it: And it's observable, that even where the Apostle doth most urge against the Law, as if it were so far from bettering men, that it makes them the worse; yet there he praiseth it, calling it good and spiritual. Now I see it called spiritual in a two-fold sense: 1. Effectivè, because it did, by Gods Spirit, quicken to spiritual life; even as the Apostle in the opposition calls himself carnal, because the power of corruption within, did work carnal and sinful motions in him. But I shall expound it spiritual. 2. Formaliter, formally, because the nature and extent of it is spiritual: for it forbids the sins of the spirit, not only external sins; it forbids thy spirit pride, thy spirit envy: Even as God is the father of spirits, so is the Law, the law of spirits. Hence it's compared by James to a glass, which will show the least spot in the face, and will not flatter, but if thou hast wrinkles and deformities there, they will be seen; so that there is no ⟨p. 7⟩such way to bring Pharisaical and Moral men out of love with themselves, as to set this glass before them.
7. In respect of the adjuncts of it, which the Scripture attributeth 1to it: And it's observable, that even where the Apostle doth most urge against the Law, as if it were so farre from bettering men, that it makes them the worse; yet there he praiseth it, calling it good and spirituall. Now I see it called spirituall in a two-fold sense: 1. Effectivè, because it did, by Gods Spirit, quicken to spirituall life; even as the Apostle in the opposition calls himselfe carnall, because the power of corruption within, did work carnall and sinfull motions in him. But I shall expound it spirituall. 2. Formaliter, formally, because the nature and extent of it is spirituall: for it forbids the sins of the spirit, not onely externall sins; it forbids thy spirit pride, thy spirit envie: Even as God is the father of spirits, so is the Law, the law of spirits. Hence it's compared by James to a glasse, which will shew the least spot in the face, and will not flatter, but if thou hast wrinckles and deformities there, they will be seen; so that there is no ⟨p. 7⟩