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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.
3. In that disobedience to it is still a sin in the believer: For 1there can be no sin, unless it be a transgression of a Law, as the Apostle John defineth sin. Now then, when David commits ⟨p. 213⟩adultery, when Peter denieth Christ, are not these sins in them? If so, is not Davids sin a sin, because it is against such and such a Commandment? As for their evasion, it is a sin against the Law as in the hand of Christ, and so against the love of Christ, and no otherwayes, this cannot hold; for then there should be no sins, but sins of unkindness, or unthankfulness. As this Law is in the hand of Christ; so murder is a sin of unkindness: but as it is against the Law simply in it self, so it is a sin of such kind as murder, and not of another kind; so that the consideration of Christs love may indeed be a great motive to obey the commands of God, yet that doth not hinder the command it self from obliging and binding of us, as it is the will of the Law-giver. But of this distinction more in its place.
3. In that disobedience to it is still a sinne in the beleever: For 1there can be no sinne, unlesse it be a transgression of a Law, as the Apostle John defineth sinne. Now then, when David commits ⟨p. 213⟩adultery, when Peter denyeth Christ, are not these sinnes in them? If so, is not Davids sinne a sinne, because it is against such and such a Commandement? As for their evasion, it is a sinne against the Law as in the hand of Christ, and so against the love of Christ, and no otherwayes, this cannot hold; for then there should be no sinnes, but sinnes of unkindnesse, or unthankfulnesse. As this Law is in the hand of Christ; so murder is a sin of unkindnesse: but as it is against the Law simply in it self, so it is a sinne of such kinde as murder, and not of another kinde; so that the consideration of Christs love may indeed be a great motive to obey the commands of God, yet that doth not hinder the command it selfe from obliging and binding of us, as it is the will of the Law-giver. But of this distinction more in its place.