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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.
But, in the next place, grant that the Word hath such an extensive and comprehensive sense, yet it doth not exclude the Moral Law, but doth always include. Can any man think, when David commends the Law of God, that he meaneth all the Word of God but the Moral Law, when indeed that was the greatest part of it at that time?
But, in the next place, grant that the Word hath such an extensive and comprehensive sense, yet it doth not exclude the Morall Law, but doth alwayes include. Can any man think, when David commends the Law of God, that he meaneth all the Word of God but the Morall Law, when indeed that was the greatest part of it at that time?
3. That opinion, which would make Christ not take an instrumental §3way for the conversion of men, in his first Sermon, wherein he was very large, that must not be asserted; but to hold that the preaching ⟨p. 192⟩of the Law is not a Medium to conversion, must needs be to say, that Christ did not take the nearest way to convert his hearers; for if you consider that Sermon, it's principally spent in the opening of the Moral Law, and pressing the duties thereof: and how can we think, but that our Saviour judged this profitable and soul-saving matter? Nor can I see, why it should be said to be only the occasion, and not medium, if powerfully set home by Gods Spirit.
3. That opinion, which would make Christ not take an instrumentall §3way for the conversion of men, in his first Sermon, wherein he was very large, that must not be asserted; but to hold that the preaching ⟨p. 192⟩of the Law is not a Medium to conversion, must needs be to say, that Christ did not take the neerest way to convert his hearers; for if you consider that Sermon, it's principally spent in the opening of the Morall Law, and pressing the duties thereof: and how can we think, but that our Saviour judged this profitable and soul-saving matter? Nor can I see, why it should be said to be only the occasion, and not medium, if powerfully set home by Gods Spirit.