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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.
4. Why it was now added. The time when it was added appeareth 1by the 18. Chapter, to wit, when the people of Israel were in the Wilderness, and had now come to their twelfth station in Mount Sinai. That reason which Philo giveth, because the Laws of God are to be learnt in a Wilderness, seeing there we cannot be hindered by the multitude, is no ways solid. Two reasons there may be, why now, and not sooner or later, God gave this Law:
4. Why it was now added. The time when it was added appeareth 1by the 18. Chapter, to wit, when the people of Israel were in the Wildernesse, and had now come to their twelfth station in Mount Sinai. That reason which Philo giveth, because the Lawes of God are to be learnt in a Wildernesse, seeing there we cannot be hindred by the multitude, is no waies solid. Two reasons there may be, why now, and not sooner or later, God gave this Law:
- 1The Law was given when the Israelites were in the wilderness, and not sooner:The Law was given when the Israelites were in the wildernes, and not sooner:
First, because the people of Israel coming out of Egypt, had 1defiled themselves with their ways: and we see, while they were in their journey in the Wilderness, what horrible gross impieties they plunged themselves into: therefore God, to restrain their impiety and idolatry, giveth them this Law, to repress ⟨p. 142⟩all that insolency, so Rom. 5. and