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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.
The doctrine I shall pursue out of these words, is, That all Doctr. though the Law given by God to the Israelites was a Covenant of grace, yet in some sense the Law and Gospel do oppose and thwart one another. And this matter I undertake, because hereby the nature of the Gospel and the Law will be much discovered. It is an error, saith Calvin, lib. 2. Instit. cap. 9. in those who do never otherwise compare the Gospel with the Law, then the merit of works with the free imputation of righteousness: and (saith he) this Antithesis or opposition is not to be refused, because the Apostle doth many times make them contrary, meaning by the Law, that rule of life, whereby God doth require of us, that which is his own, giving us no ground of hope, unless in every respect we keep the Law; but, saith he, quum de totâ lege agitur, when he speaks of the Law more largely taken, he makes them to differ, only in respect of clearer manifestation: or, as Pareus saith of the old and new Covenant, they differ not essentially, but as we say the old and new Moon.
The doctrine I shall pursue out of these words, is, That al Doctr. though the Law given by God to the Israelites was a Covenant of grace, yet in some sense the Law and Gospel doe oppose and thwart one another. And this matter I undertake, because hereby the nature of the Gospel and the Law will be much discovered. It is an errour, saith Calvin, lib. 2. Instit. cap. 9. in those who doe never otherwise compare the Gospel with the Law, then the merit of works with the free imputation of righteousnesse: and (saith he) this Antithesis or opposition is not to be refused, because the Apostle doth many times make them contrary, meaning by the Law, that rule of life, whereby God doth require of us, that which is his own, giving us no ground of hope, unlesse in every respect we keep the Law; but, saith he, quum de totâ lege agitur, when he speakes of the Law more largely taken, he makes them to differ, only in respect of clearer manifestation: or, as Pareus saith of the old and new Covenant, they differ not essentially, but as we say the old and new Moon.
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