A77854:483
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.
It is true, the dispensation of the Law was in a terrible way, and did gender to bondage; but the doctrine of the Law, that was for love, and the more any Jew did any thing in love to God, the more conformable he was to Gods Law.
4. It required such an heavenly heart, that we are to love God more 1then any thing else. It did not only require love to God, but also it commanded it in such a preheminency, as that none under the times of the Gospel can do an higher duty, or expression of love, than then was commanded; suppose a man be a Martyr, will lose his life for Gods cause, this is an obedience to the first Commandment. When our Saviour saith, He that loveth father or mother more then me, is not worthy of me; he commands no ⟨p. 174⟩higher thing of any Christian, then every Jew was bound to do. Hence Levi was so commended, because, in executing of Justice, he knew not father or mother: and it must needs be so, for what can be more then all? and yet God requires all the mind, all the heart, all the strength; not that we were bound to love God in quantum est diligibilis, for so God only can love himself; but nihil supra, aequè, or contra.
4. It required such an heavenly heart, that we are to love God more 1then any thing else. It did not only require love to God, but also it commanded it in such a preheminency, as that none under the times of the Gospel can doe an higher duty, or expression of love, than then was commanded; suppose a man be a Martyr, will lose his life for Gods cause, this is an obedience to the first Commandement. When our Saviour saith, He that loveth father or mother more then me, is not worthy of me; he commands no ⟨p. 174⟩higher thing of any Christian, then every Jew was bound to do. Hence Levi was so commended, because, in executing of Justice, he knew not father or mother: and it must needs be so, for what can be more then all? and yet God requires all the minde, all the heart, all the strength; not that we were bound to love God in quantum est diligibilis, for so God only can love himself; but nihil supra, aequè, or contra.