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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 answer is, that Christ in his first coming was not as a Judge, and therefore did not take upon him to meddle in temporal Sol. punishments, only as a minister, he laboured to bring them unto repentance, both the woman, and the accusers.
The answer is, that Christ in his first coming was not as a Judge, and therefore did not take upon him to medle in temporall Sol. punishments, only as a minister, he laboured to bring them unto repentance, both the woman, and the accusers.
And whereas again it's objected, that this way of putting to Object. 3 death, is against charity and love of mens souls, because many are put to death without any seeming repentance, which is presently to send them to Hell.
The answer is, that all Magistrates, they are to take care for the Sol. salvation of the malefactors souls, as much as in them lieth; but if they do perish in their sins, this ariseth not from justice done, which is rather to bring them in mind of their sins, and to humble them, but it cometh from the frowardness, and obstinacy in their own hearts. And in that, we see a Magistracy confirmed in the Gospel, we need not require an express command in the ⟨p. 183⟩New Testament for the putting of some malefactors to death.
The answer is, that all Magistrates, they are to take care for the Sol. salvation of the malefactors souls, as much as in them lyeth; but if they do perish in their sins, this ariseth not from justice done, which is rather to bring them in mind of their sins, and to humble them, but it cometh from the frowardnesse, and obstinacy in their own hearts. And in that, we see a Magistracy confirmed in the Gospel, we need not require an expresse command in the