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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.
1. That in the Text, when men turn it unto unfruitful and unprofitable 1disputes: and this the Apostle doth here mainly intend Cui bono? must be the question made of any dispute about the Law: and therefore, if I should, in this exercise I have undertaken, handle any frivolous or unprofitable disputes, this were to use the Law unlawfully; and therefore let Ministers take heed that be not true of them, which one dreamed about the Schoolmen, that he thought them all like a man eating an hard stone, ⟨p. 17⟩when pure manchet was by. Besides, he preacheth the Law unprofitably, not only that darkeneth it with obscure questions, but that doth not teach Christ by it: and I see not but that Ministers may be humbled, that they have pressed religious duties, but not so as to set up Christ; and hereby people have been content with duties and sacraments, though no Christ in them. But, as all the vessels were to be of pure gold in the Temple, so ought all our duties to be of pure and mere Christ for acceptation.
1. That in the Text, when men turne it unto unfruitfull and unprofitable 1disputes: and this the Apostle doth here mainly intend Cui bono? must be the question made of any dispute about the Law: and therefore, if I should, in this exercise I have undertaken, handle any frivolous or unprofitable disputes, this were to use the Law unlawfully; and therefore let Ministers take heed that be not true of them, which one dreamed about the Schoolmen, that he thought them all like a man eating an hard stone, ⟨p. 17⟩when pure manchet was by. Besides, he preacheth the Law unprofitably, not onely that darkeneth it with obscure questions, but that doth not teach Christ by it: and I see not but that Ministers may be humbled, that they have pressed religious duties, but not so as to set up Christ; and hereby people have been content with duties and sacraments, though no Christ in them. But, as all the vessels were to be of pure gold in the Temple, so ought all our duties to be of pure and meere Christ for acceptation.