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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.
Again, if these things were required as antecedent qualifications in them for the remission of sins, then all those arguments will hold true upon them, which they would fasten, as injuries to Christ and grace, upon us. If (say they) we must repent, and humble our selves, and so have pardon, this is to cast off Christ, this is to make an idol of our own righteousness, &c. It seemeth the Jews under the Old Testament might do all these things without blame: A Jew might say, My services, my sacrifices, my prayers will do something to the remission of my sins: but a Christian may not. The Author urgeth also that place, While we are enemies, we were reconciled to God: but doth not this hold true of the Jews? Did they first make themselves friends with God? What is this but to hold the doctrine of free-will and works in the time of the Law; and the doctrine of grace under the new only? As for faith, whether that be a condition or not, I shall not here meddle: only this is plain, it was required of them under the old Covenant, in the same manner as it is of us now.
Again, if these things were required as antecedent qualifications in them for the remission of sinnes, then all those arguments will hold true upon them, which they would fasten, as injuries to Christ and grace, upon us. If (say they) we must repent, and humble our selves, and so have pardon, this is to cast off Christ, this is to make an idoll of our own righteousnesse, &c. It seemeth the Jewes under the Old Testament might doe all these things without blame: A Jew might say, My services, my sacrifices, my prayers will doe something to the remission of my sinnes: but a Christian may not. The Author urgeth also that place, While we are enemies, we were reconciled to God: but doth not this hold true of the Jewes? Did they first make themselves friends with God? What is this but to hold the doctrine of free-will and works in the time of the Law; and the doctrine of grace under the new only? As for faith, whether that be a condition or not, I shall not here medle: only this is plain, it was required of them under the old Covenant, in the same maner as it is of us now.
A third difference made as to remission of sins, is this: Their 1