A77854:541
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.
Another consideration that I would propound is this, *That the work of conversion is not wrought totally in a man without the Gospel: for, as I told you, now in the preaching of the Word there is not mere Law, nor mere Gospel, but they are to be composed and to be made helpful to each other; and also, whatsoever ⟨p. 194⟩benefit or effect we get in the hearing, preaching, or meditating upon the Law of God, it is to be attributed unto the Covenant of grace in Christ. And therefore all these places, which attribute conversion and holiness to the Gospel, do not at all make against my Assertion; for the Question is not, Whether by the power of the Law we come to obey the Law; but, Whether grace may not use the Precepts, or Law preached, for the inflaming of our affections so in love with the things commanded, that we are thereby made more holy. And thus I interpret those Authors that deny the Law to be instrumental to holiness, that is, not animated by Gods Spirit, or separated from it.
Another consideration that I would propound is this, *That the work of conversion is not wrought totally in a man without the Gospel: for, as I told you, now in the preaching of the Word there is not meere Law, nor meere Gospel, but they are to be composed and to be made helpfull to each other; and also, whatsoever ⟨p. 194⟩benefit or effect we get in the hearing, preaching, or meditating upon the Law of God, it is to be attributed unto the Covenant of grace in Christ. And therefore all these places, which attribute conversion and holinesse to the Gospel, do not at all make against my Assertion; for the Question is not, Whether by the power of the Law we come to obey the Law; but, Whether grace may not use the Precepts, or Law preached, for the inflaming of our affections so in love with the things commanded, that we are thereby made more holy. And thus I interpret those Authors that deny the Law to be instrumentall to holinesse, that is, not animated by Gods Spirit, or separated from it.
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