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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.
2. When men look to carnal and worldly respects, in the handling 1of it. This is also to use the Law unlawfully. And thus the Priests and the Jews did, as thereby to make a living, and to have temporal blessings: And it is no wonder that the Law may be used so, seeing the doctrine of Christ is so abused. There are, as Nazianzen saith well, [Greek or Hebrew], and [Greek or Hebrew], Christ-merchants, and Christ-hucksters, that hope, as Judas did, for carnal ends by Christ; Therefore so we are to handle Law and Gospel, not as thereby to make parties, or to get applause; but of a godly love and zeal to truth. It was an honest complaint of a Popish writer, We (saith he) handle the Scripture (tantùm ut nos pascat, & vestiat) that we might only live, and be clothed by it. And how do we all fall short of Paul, as, Acts 20. where he was preaching night and day with great affections, and desired no mans gold or silver? how well might Chrysostom call him, Angelus torrestris, &, Cor Pauli est cor Christi?
2. When men look to carnall and worldly respects, in the handling 1of it. This is also to use the Law unlawfully. And thus the Priests and the Jewes did, as thereby to make a living, and to have temporall blessings: And it is no wonder that the Law may be used so, seeing the doctrine of Christ is so abused. There are, as Nazianzen saith well, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Christmerchants, and Christ-hucksters, that hope, as Judas did, for carnall ends by Christ; Therefore so we are to handle Law and Gospel, not as thereby to make parties, or to get applause; but of a godly love and zeale to truth. It was an honest complaint of a Popish writer, Wee (saith hee) handle the Scripture (tantùm ut nos pascat, & vestiat) that we might onely live, and be cloathed by it. And how doe we all fall short of Paul, as, Acts 20. where hee was preaching night and day with great affections, and desired no mans gold or silver? how well might Chrysostome call him, Angelus torrestris, &, Cor Pauli est cor Christi?