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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.
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, Deut. 7. 12. Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgements, and do them, that the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the Covenant, and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers. And, certainly, if the Law had been a Covenant of works, God had fully abrogated and broken his Covenant and Promise of grace which he made with Abraham and his seed. Therefore, when the Apostle, Gal. 3. 18. opposeth the Law and the Promise together, making the inheritance by one, and not the other; it is to be understood according to the distinction before mentioned of the Law taken ⟨p. 227⟩in a most strict and limited sense: for it is plain, that Moses in the administration of this Law had regard to the Covenant and Promise, yea, made it the same with it.
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 finde 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, Deut. 7. 12. Wherefore it shall come to passe, if ye hearken to these judgements, and doe them, that the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the Covenant, and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers. And, certainly, if the Law had been a Covenant of workes, God had fully abrogated and broken his Covenant and Promise of grace which he made with Abraham and his seed. Therefore, when the Apostle, Gal. 3. 18. opposeth the Law and the Promise together, making the inheritance by one, and not the other; it is to be understood according to the distinction before mentioned of the Law taken ⟨p. 227⟩in a most strict and limited sense: for it is plain, that Moses in the administration of this Law had regard to the Covenant and Promise, yea, made it the same with it.