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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.
5. This will appear from the visible seal to ratify this Covenant, Argum. 5 which, you heard, was by sacrifices, and sprinkling the people with blood: And this did signify Christ; for Christ he also was the Mediator of this Covenant, seeing that reconciliation cannot possibly be made with a sinner through the Mediation of any mortal man. When therefore Moses is called the Mediator, it is to be understood typically, even as the sacrifices did wash away sin typically. And, indeed, if it had been a Covenant of works, there needed no Mediator, either typical, or real; some think Christ likewise was the Angel spoke of Act. 7. with whom Moses was in the wilderness; and it is probable. Now if Christ was the Mediator of the Law as a Covenant, the Antinomian distinction must fall to the ground, that makes the Law as in the hand of Moses, and not in the hand of Christ: whereas on Mount Sinai, the Law was in the hand of Christ.
5. This will appeare from the visible seale to ratifie this Covenant, Argum. 5 which, you heard, was by sacrifices, and sprinkling the people with bloud: And this did signifie Christ; for Christ he also was the Mediatour of this Covenant, seeing that reconciliation cannot possibly be made with a sinner through the Mediation of any mortall man. When therefore Moses is called the Mediatour, it is to be understood typically, even as the sacrifices did wash away sinne typically. And, indeed, if it had been a Covenant of works, there needed no Mediatour, either typicall, or reall; some think Christ likewise was the Angel spoke of Act. 7. with whom Moses was in the wildernesse; and it is probable. Now if Christ was the Mediatour of the Law as a Covenant, the Antinomian distinction must fall to the ground, that makes the Law as in the hand of Moses, and not in the hand of Christ: whereas on Mount Sinai, the Law was in the hand of Christ.
6. If the Law were the same Covenant with that oath, which Argum. 6 God made to Isaac, then it must needs be a Covenant of grace: But we shall find that God when he gave this Law to them, makes it an argument of his love and grace to them; and therefore remembers what he had promised to Abraham,