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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.
3. Gods immediate writing of these with his own fingers in tables 1of stone, Exod. 31. 18. Which honour was not vouchsafed to the other Laws.
3. Gods immediate writing of these with his own fingers in tables 1of stone, Exod. 31. 18. Which honour was not vouchsafed to the other Lawes.
- 13. The Law was written by God in Tables of stone, to denote the dignity and perpetuity of it. What meant by the finger of God.
Now by the Finger of God, howsoever some of the Fathers have understood the holy Ghost, and, because the Finger is of the same essence with the body, infer the holy Ghost to be of the same nature with God; yet this conceit is not solid: yet Luke 11. 20. that which is called the finger of God, is Matth. 12. 28. called the Spirit of God: We must therefore understand it of the power and operation of God, who caused those words to be written there. The matter upon which this is written, is said to be tables of stone. The Rabbins conceit, saying, that because it is said of stone in the singular number, that therefore it was but one table, which sometimes did appear as one, sometimes as two, is ⟨p. 150⟩not worthy the confuting. That which is here to be considered, and makes much to the dignity of the Law, is, that it was written by God, upon tables of stone, to show the perpetuity, and stability of it.