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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.
LECTURE XXV.
ROM. 3. 27. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay, but by the law of faith.
The Apostle delivered in the words before most compendiously 1and fully the whole doctrine of justification in the several causes of it, from whence in this verse, he inferreth a conclusion against all boasting in a mans self; which he manageth by short interrogations, that so he might the more subdue that self confidence in us: Where is boasting? saith he. This is to be applied universally both to Jew and Gentile; but especially to the Jew, who gloried most herein. And Chrysostom makes this the reason, why Christ deferred so long, and put off his coming in the flesh, viz. that our humane pride might be debased: for if at first he had come unto us, men would not have found such an absolute necessity of a Saviour. The second Question is, by what Law boasting is excluded; and this is answered, first negatively, not by the Law of works. Secondly positively, by the law of faith.
THe Apostle delivered in the words before most compendiously 1and fully the whole doctrine of justification in the severall causes of it, from whence in this verse, he inferreth a conclusion against all boasting in a mans self; which he manageth by short interrogations, that so he might the more subdue that self confidence in us: Where is boasting? saith he. This is to be applied universally both to Jew and Gentile; but especially to the Jew, who gloried most herein. And Chrysostome makes this the reason, why Christ deferred so long, and put off his coming in the flesh, viz. that our humane pride might be debased: for if at first he had come unto us, men would not have found such an absolute necessity of a Saviour. The second Question is, by what Law boasting is excluded; and this is answered, first negatively, not by the Law of works. Secondly positively, by the law of faith.