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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.
3. It required all our duties to be done,1
- 1All the duties required by the Law, were to be done,
1. In faith: for who can think, that when God required in the first Table, having him for their God, that hereby was not commanded faith and trusting in him, as a God in Covenant, who 1would pardon sin? How could the Jews love God, or pray unto him acceptably, if they had not faith in him? Therefore the Law is to be considered most strictly, as it containeth nothing but precepts of things to be done; in which sense, its sometimes, though seldom, taken. And 2. more largely, as it had the Preface, and Promises added unto it: and so it did necessarily require justifying faith; for it cannot be conceived, that when God commanded the people of Israel, by Moses, to worship him, and to acknowledge him as their God, but that his will was, they should believe on him as a Father: But more of this when we speak of the Law as a Covenant.
1. In faith: for who can think, that when God required in the first Table, having him for their God, that hereby was not commanded faith and trusting in him, as a God in Covenant, who 1would pardon sinne? How could the Jewes love God, or pray unto him acceptably, if they had not faith in him? Therefore the Law is to be considered most strictly, as it containeth nothing but precepts of things to be done; in which sense, its sometimes, though seldome, taken. And 2. more largely, as it had the Preface, and Promises added unto it: and so it did necessarily require justifying faith; for it cannot be conceived, that when God commanded the people of Israel, by Moses, to worship him, and to acknowledge him as their God, but that his will was, they should beleeve on him as a Father: But more of this when wee speak of the Law as a Covenant.