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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.
6. Moses his zeal against this their idolatry, and breaking of the 1Tables. When Moses came down, he saw how the people had transgressed the Law of God, which so moved him, that, in his zeal, he brake the Tables that were first made. This certainly was by the immediate ordering of God, to signify, that this could not be a way of justification for them: and, indeed, to hold that the Law can justify, is so great an error, that we are all Antinomians in this sense. One hath said, that the Law was like the tree of knowledge of good and evil, but the Gospel that is like the tree of life: yet this must be rightly understood; for God useth the Law, as he doth his whole Word, to beget and increase the life of grace in us, only this life is not that which can justify us: and in this effect of the Law, to increase life, David doth often commend it.
6. Moses his zeale against this their idolatry, and breaking of the 1Tables. When Moses came down, he saw how the people had transgressed the Law of God, which so moved him, that, in his zeale, he brake the Tables that were first made. This certainly was by the immediate ordering of God, to signifie, that this could not be a way of justification for them: and, indeed, to hold that the Law can justifie, is so great an errour, that we are all Antinomians in this sence. One hath said, that the Law was like the tree of knowledge of good and evill, but the Gospel that is like the tree of life: yet this must be rightly understood; for God useth the Law, as he doth his whole Word, to beget and increase the life of grace in us, only this life is not that which can justifie us: and in this effect of the Law, to increase life, David doth often commend it.
- 16. Moses his breaking of the Tables intimates, that justification is not to be had by them.
Now some have attributed this to Moses, as a sin, accounting