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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 second error is of the Papists, that maketh this difference Error 2 between the Law and the Gospel, That the same thing is called the Law, while it is without the Spirit; and when it hath the Spirit, it is called the Gospel; This is to confound the Law and Gospel, and bring in Justification by works.
The second errour is of the Papists, that maketh this difference Errour 2 between the Law and the Gospel, That the same thing is called the Law, while it is without the Spirit; and when it hath the Spirit, it is called the Gospel; This is to confound the Law and Gospel, and bring in Justification by works.
The third is of the Socinian mentioned afterwards. These rocks avoided, we come to consider the place: and first I Error 3 may demand, Whether any under the Old Testament were made partakers of Gods Spirit, or no? If they were, how came they by it? There can be no other way said, but that God did give his Spirit in all those public Ordinances unto the believing Israelites; so that although they did in some measure obey the Law, yet they did it not by the power of the Law, but by the power of Grace.
The third is of the Socinian mentioned afterwards. These rocks avoided, we come to consider the place: and first I Errour 3 may demand, Whether any under the Old Testament were made partakers of Gods Spirit, or no? If they were, how came they by it? There can be no other way said, but that God did give his Spirit in all those publique Ordinances unto the beleeving Israelites; so that although they did in some measure obey the Law, yet they did it not by the power of the Law, but by the power of Grace.
Again, in the next place, (which hath always much prevailed with me) did not the people of God receive the Grace of God offered in the Sacraments at that time? We constantly maintain against the Papists, that our Sacraments and theirs differ not for substance. Therefore in Circumcision, and the Paschal Lamb, they were made partakers of Christ as well as we: yet