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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.
In the second place therefore, in this controversy, still remember 1to carry along with you the different use of the word [Law] as to this point; for if you take Law strictly, and yet make it a Covenant of grace, you confound the righteousness of works, and of faith together, as the Papists do: but if largely, then there may be an happy reconciliation.
In the second place therefore, in this controversie, still remember 1to carry along with you the different use of the word [Law] as to this point; for if you take Law strictly, and yet make it a Covenant of grace, you confound the righteousnesse of works, and of faith together, as the Papists doe: but if largely, then there may be an happy reconciliation.
- 1The different use of the word [Law] carefully to be observed.
For the better opening of this, consider, that as the word 1[Law] so the word [Gospel] may be taken largely, or strictly. We will not trouble you with the many significations of the word (or whether it be used any where of a sorrowful message, as well as glad news, as some say in two places it is used, 1 Sam. 4. 17. 2 Sam. 1. 10. according to that rule of Mercers, Non infrequens esse, specialia verba interdum generaliter sumi.) It is enough to our purpose, that in the Scripture it is sometimes taken more largely, and sometimes more strictly: when it's taken largely, it ⟨p. 231⟩signifieth the whole doctrine, that the Apostles were to preach,