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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.
First, that all the legal sacrifices were only for sins of mere 1ignorance; (This is also an error among Sociniaus) but Levit. 6. 2, 3. there is a sacrifice appointed for him that shall lye, and ⟨p. 237⟩swear falsely in detaining of his neighbours goods, and this could not be but a sin of knowledge. This is also abundantly confirmed in Levit. 16. where the feast of expiation and atonement is made for all the sins of the people, ver. 16. He shall make an atonement, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins. So ver. 21. He shall confess over the live goat all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins. Thus ver. 30. That ye may be clean from all your sins before the Lord: and ver. 34. This shall be an atonement for the children of Israel, once a year for all their sins. Thus you see the Scripture speaks plainly for all their sins; yet the Antinomian speaks as boldly, as if nothing were truer; that there were sacrifices for some sorts of sins only. So that you are wisely to judge of such books, and not believe every confident expression. It's true, the Apostle calls these sins [Greek or Hebrew], Heb. 9. 7. we translate it errors; for the Apostle doth not mean sins committed out of mere ignorance, but all kind of sins, as appeareth by Levit. 16. but therefore are all sins called so, because omnis malus ignorat: There being no sin which doth not proceed from some error in the practical judgement? for although a man sin wilfully and advisedly, so that there is Nulla alia causa malitiae nisi malitia, (as Austin speaks of some of his sins) yet there is even then an error in that mans conscience.
First, that all the legall sacrifices were only for sinnes of meer 1ignorance; (This is also an errour among Sociniaus) but