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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.
The fifth Argument, If the Law by Moses do not bind us; then Argum. 5 the explication of it by the other Prophets doth not also belong unto us: For this you must know, that Moses in other places doth explain this Law; and Davids Psalms, and Solomons Proverbs, as also the Prophesies of the Prophets, so far as they are Moral, are nothing but explications of the Moral Law. Now what a wide door will here be open to overthrow the Old Testament, if I bring that place Deut. 32. 46. [Set your hearts upon these words which I testify to you this day, because it is your life, &c.] to urge Christians to keep the Commandments of the Lord? It may be replied, What is that to us? We have nothing to do with Moses: The matter, indeed, doth belong to us as it is in the New Testament, but as it is there written, so we have nothing to do with it. And by this means all our Texts, and proofs, which are brought in our Sermons may be rejected. And therefore Dominicus à Soto (who is among the Papists for the negative) expressly saith, lib. 2. de Just. & jure, quaest. 5. Art. 4. that no place can be brought out of the books of the Old Testament, unto Christians, as in respect of the obliging force of it. This is plainly to overthrow the Old Testament.
The fifth Argument, If the Law by Moses doe not binde us; then Argum. 5 the explication of it by the other Prophets doth not also belong unto us: For this you must know, that Moses in other places doth explain this Law; and Davids Psalmes, and Solomons Proverbs, as also the Prophesies of the Prophets, so farre as they are Morall, are nothing but explications of the Morall Law. Now what a wide doore will here be open to overthrow the Old Testament, if I bring that place Deut. 32. 46. [Set your hearts upon these words which I testifie to you this day, because it is your life, &c.] to urge Christians to keep the Commandements of the Lord? It may be replyed, What is that to us? We have nothing to do with Moses: The matter, indeed, doth belong to us as it is in the New Testament, but as it is there written, so we have nothing to doe with it. And by this meanes all our Texts, and proofes, which are brought in our Sermons may be rejected. And therefore Dominicus à Soto (who is among the Papists for the negative) expresly saith, lib. 2. de Just. & jure, quaest. 5. Art. 4. that no place can be brought out of the books of the Old Testament, unto Christians, as in respect of the obliging force of it. This is plainly to overthrow the Old Testament.