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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
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Nor lastly, That Moses desired to see the humanity of Christ in glory, like that vision of transfiguration; therefore I judge this most literal, that although it's said, ver. 11. that Moses spake with God face to face, which argueth familiarity, yet for all that, even then God was clothed as it were in a cloud, interposing it self. Now Moses he desireth, that God would manifest ⟨p. 153⟩himself in a more sensible, visible, and glorious way of an outward shape; even as before he would have known Gods Name. Now God in part answereth him, and in part denieth him, showing such a glorious object, that yet he was not able to see, but where the light was less intense.
Nor lastly, That Moses desired to see the humanity of Christ in glory, like that vision of transfiguration; therefore I judge this most literall, that although it's said, ver. 11. that Moses spake with God face to face, which argueth familiarity, yet for all that, even then God was clothed as it were in a cloud, interposing it selfe. Now Moses he desireth, that God would manifest ⟨p. 153⟩himselfe in a more sensible, visible, and glorious way of an outward shape; even as before he would have knowne Gods Name. Now God in part answereth him, and in part denieth him, shewing such a glorious object, that yet he was not able to see, but where the light was lesse intense.
8. The reparation of the Tables again. And here is some difference 1between the former and the later Tables: The former God provided both for the shape and the writing, as you heard; but here the forming or polishing of the Table is Moses his work, and the writing is Gods. The first is said expressly, Exod. 34. 1. Go, hew thee two Tables of stone like the former, and I will write upon these Tables. Here is the second expressly. So