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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.
Now, if you consider the objects of faith, or things to be believed, 1they were more obscurely delivered to them: The doctrine of the Trinity, the Incarnation of Christ, and the Resurrection; these things were but in a dark manner delivered, yet, according to the measure of that light then held forth, they were bound to believe those things: so that as Moses had a veil upon him, thus also his doctrine had; and, as the knowledge we have here is [Greek or Hebrew], in respect of that in heaven, so that in the Old Testament may be said to be [Greek or Hebrew], in respect of that in the New.
Now, if you consider the objects of faith, or things to be beleeved, 1they were more obscurely delivered to them: The doctrine of the Trinity, the Incarnation of Christ, and the Resurrection; these things were but in a dark manner delivered, yet, according to the measure of that light then held forth, they were bound to beleeve those things: so that as Moses had a veile upon him, thus also his doctrine had; and, as the knowledge we have here is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, in respect of that in heaven, so that in the Old Testament may be said to be 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, in respect of that in the New.
- 11. It is so for the credenda.
As it is thus for the credenda, things to be believed, so it is also 1for the speranda, things hoped for. The opinion of the Socinians and others is very wicked, which makes them before Christ, only to hope in temporal good things, and the notion of the Papists observing that the Church under the New Testament is called ecclesia, but never synagogue; and the meeting of the Jews, called always synagogue, but never ecclesia, doth suppose that the Jews were gathered together as so many beasts, rather then called together as men. But this notion is judged false; and they instance