A77854:576
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.
5. The Law is no more abrogated to a believer under the Old Testament 1then to one under the New. This assertion will much discover the falseness of the adversaries opinion: for they carry it, as if the Law were abrogated only to the believers under the ⟨p. 207⟩Gospel. Now how can this ever be made good? for either they must deny that there were any believers under the Old Testament; or, if they were, then they are freed from the Law as much as any now. Indeed if you take the Law for the whole administration of the Covenant in the Old Testament, we grant that it was pedagoricall, and more servile; so that a believer under the Old Testament, did not meet with such clear and evident dispensations of love, as a believer under the Gospel: yet in respect of justification and salvation, the Law was the same to them as to us, and to us as to them.
5. The Law is no more abrogated to a beleever under the Old Testament 1then to one under the New. This assertion will much discover the falsenesse of the adversaries opinion: for they carry it, as if the Law were abrogated only to the beleevers under the ⟨p. 207⟩Gospel. Now how can this ever be made good? for either they must deny that there were any beleevers under the Old Testament; or, if they were, then they are freed from the Law as much as any now. Indeed if you take the Law for the whole administration of the Covenant in the Old Testament, we grant that it was pedagoricall, and more servile; so that a beleever under the Old Testament, did not meet with such cleare and evident dispensations of love, as a beleever under the Gospel: yet in respect of justification and salvation, the Law was the same to them as to us, and to us as to them.
- 1The Law equally abrogated to believers under the Old and New Testament.The Law equally abrogated to beleevers under the Old and New Testament.