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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.
5. The time of Moses his abode on the Mount. This also is observable 1in the story; for hereby God did not only procure great ground of Authority for Moses among the people, but also unto the Law: And therefore, as some compare the time of giving the Law, with the effusion of the gifts of the holy Ghost in the Gospel, making the former to be the fiftieth day of their egress out of Egypt, called Pentecost; so at the same time the holy Ghost was given to the Church: Thus also they compare Moses forty days upon the Mount, with our Saviours forty days in the wilderness, when he was tempted. It was certainly a miraculous preservation of Moses, that he should be there so long, and neither eat, nor drink. But this example of Moses, with that of our Saviours, is very vainly, and unwarrantably brought for fasting in Lent.
5. The time of Moses his abode on the Mount. This also is observable 1in the story; for hereby God did not only procure great ground of Authority for Moses among the people, but also unto the Law: And therefore, as some compare the time of giving the Law, with the effusion of the gifts of the holy Ghost in the Gospel, making the former to be the fiftieth day of their egresse out of Egypt, called Pentecost; so at the same time the holy Ghost was given to the Church: Thus also they compare Moses forty dayes upon the Mount, with our Saviours forty dayes in the wildernesse, when he was tempted. It was certainly a miraculous preservation of Moses, that he should be there so long, and neither eate, nor drinke. But this example of Moses, with that of our Saviours, is very vainly, and unwarrantably brought for fasting in Lent.
- 15. Moses his abode in the Mount, procured authority both to himself and the Law.
6. Moses his zeal against this their idolatry, and breaking of the 1