A77854:537
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.
LECTURE XXI.
ROM. 3. 31. Do we then make void the Law through faith? God forbid: But we rather establish the Law.
I Shall in the next place discuss that famous Question, about the abrogating of the Moral Law: only I must answer to some Objections that are made against the former position, That the Law may be used by God in the preaching of it to mans Conversion, in the sense explained: which, if not attended unto, may make the assertion seem harsh, and incredible. But before I answer the Objections, let us consider a great mistake of the Antinomian author, Assert. of grace, pag. 171. where he makes the very ground, why they are charged with Antinomianism, to be, because they do not hold the Law to be used by God instrumentally for the conversion of men. Certainly this is a great mistake, for there are many learned men, who hold the work of the Law by the power of Gods Spirit to be no more then preparatory; yet for all that, do peremptorily maintain the use and the obligation of the Law in respect of believers. Therefore they are not in this respect condemned for that error.
I Shall in the next place discusse that famous Question, about the abrogating of the Morall Law: only I must answer to some Objections that are made against the former position, That the Law may be used by God in the preaching of it to mans Conversion, in the sense explained: which, if not attended unto, may make the assertion seeme harsh, and incredible. But before I answer the Objections, let us consider a great mistake of the Antinomian author, Assert. of grace, pag. 171. where he makes the very ground, why they are charged with Antinomianisme, to be, because they doe not hold the Law to be used by God instrumentally for the conversion of men. Certainly this is a great mistake, for there are many learned men, who hold the work of the Law by the power of Gods Spirit to be no more then preparatory; yet for all that, doe peremptorily maintaine the use and the obligation of the Law in respect of beleevers. Therefore they are not in this respect condemned for that errour.