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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 second difference of the Papists, is, to make the Law and 1the Gospel capable of no opposite consideration, no not in any strict sense, but to hold both a Covenant of works, and that the Fathers under the Old Testament, and those under the New, were both justified by fulfilling the Law of God. And herein lieth that gross error, whereby Christ and grace are evacuated: But the falsehood of this shall be evinced (God willing) when we speak of the Law and Gospel strictly, which the Papists, upon a dangerous error, call the Old Law, and the New.
The second difference of the Papists, is, to make the Law and 1the Gospel capable of no opposite consideration, no not in any strict sense, but to hold both a Covenant of workes, and that the Fathers under the Old Testament, and those under the New, were both justified by fulfilling the Law of God. And herein lyeth that grosse error, whereby Christ and grace are evacuated: But the falshood of this shall be evinced (God willing) when wee speak of the Law and Gospel strictly, which the Papists, upon a dangerous errour, call the Old Law, and the New.
- 12. That the Law and Gospel are capable of no opposite consideration.
Lastly, the Papists make a third difference, that under the 1Old Testament, the Fathers that dyed went not immediately to heaven; therefore (say they) we do not say, Saint Jeremiah, or, Saint Isaiah, but after Christs death, then a way was opened for them and us: Hence is that saying, Sanguis Christi, est clavis Paradisi: but this is sufficiently confuted in the Popish controversies.
Lastly, the Papists make a third difference, that under the