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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.
First, this may be understood reduplicatively, as if it did 1bind because of Moses; so that whatsoever is of Moses his ministry doth belong to us: and this is very false, and contrary to the whole current of Scripture; for then the Ceremonial Law would also bind us, because, à quatenus ad omne valet consequentia; 2so that you must not understand it in this sense.
First, this may be understood reduplicatively, as if it did 1bind because of Moses; so that whatsoever is of Moses his ministery doth belong to us: and this is very false, and contrary to the whole current of Scripture; for then the Ceremoniall Law would also binde us, because, à quatenus ad omne valet consequentia; 2so that you must not understand it in this sense.
- 1The Law given by Moses doth not bind us in regard of Moses.
- 2The Law given by Moses, as written for the Church of God, and intended for good to Christians in the N. Testament, is binding.
Secondly, you may understand it thus, that Moses as a Penman of the Scripture, writing this down for the Church of God, did by this intend good to Christians in the New Testament: and this cannot be well denied by any, that do hold the ⟨p. 158⟩Old Testament doth belong to Christians; for why should not the books of Moses belong to us, as well as the books of the Prophets. Though indeed this be denied by all those that are for the negative.