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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.
I find other differences between the Law and the Gospel, made by another Antinomian, and they are in a Sermon upon the two Covenants of grace, where the Author, having truly asserted, that God did transact with the Jews in a Covenant of grace; yet he makes that Covenant, and this under the Gospel, 1to be two distinct Covenants: They are not (saith he, pag. 45.) one and the same Covenant diversly administered, but they are two distinct Covenants: His arguments are, because they are called Old and New: But those names enforce no essential difference. The Commandment of love is called an old Commandment, and a new; yet it is the same for essence: so likewise the terms of a good, and better, do imply no more then a gradual difference in their excellency. But that which I shall especially animadvert upon, is, the differences he giveth between these two Covenants of grace so really distinguished, as he supposeth, and in this matter, the Author speaketh much error in a few lines.
I find other differences between the Law and the Gospel, made by another Antinomian, and they are in a Sermon upon the two Covenants of grace, where the Author, having truely asserted, that God did transact with the Jewes in a Covenant of grace; yet hee makes that Covenant, and this under the Gospel, 1to be two distinct Covenants: They are not (saith hee, pag. 45.) one and the same Covenant diversly administred, but they are two distinct Covenants: His arguments are, because they are called Old and New: But those names inforce no essentiall difference. The Commandement of love is called an old Commandement, and a new; yet it is the same for essence: so likewise the termes of a good, and better, doe imply no more then a graduall difference in their excellency. But that which I shall especially animadvert upon, is, the differences hee giveth between these two Covenants of grace so really distinguished, as hee supposeth, and in this matter, the Authour speaketh much error in a few lines.
- 12. That the Covenant God made with the Jews, and this under the Gospel are two distinct Covenants.