A77854:687
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.
The second difference is in the object matter: The Law holdeth 1forth a perfect righteousness, and will not admit of any other; but the Gospel that condescends, and brings pardon through Christ. And this is the main difference, and in which they can never be made one. Now the Papist, Arminian, Socinian, and others, do overthrow this grand and main difference, holding justification by works under some notion, or other: whereas the Apostle maketh an immediate opposition, If of faith, then not of works. The Apostle doth not distinguish of works of nature, and works of grace, or works of grace perfect and imperfect: but speaketh absolutely, and so doth also exclude that subtle opinion, of making faith to justify as a work; for the Apostle, making an opposition between faith and works, must necessarily take faith under such a notion, as cannot be a work. And this truth is that which is the pillar of the Church of God, and that which differenceth us from Jews, Turks, Papists, and many heretics.
The second difference is in the object matter: The Law holdeth 1forth a perfect righteousnesse, and will not admit of any other; but the Gospel that condescends, and brings pardon through Christ. And this is the maine difference, and in which they can never be made one. Now the Papist, Arminian, Socinian, and others, do overthrow this grand and maine difference, holding justification by works under some notion, or other: whereas the Apostle maketh an immediate opposition, If of faith, then not of works. The Apostle doth not distinguish of works of nature, and works of grace, or works of grace perfect and imperfect: but speaketh absolutely, and so doth also exclude that subtile opinion, of making faith to justifie as a work; for the Apostle, making an opposition between faith and works, must necessarily take faith under such a notion, as cannot be a work. And this truth is that which is the pillar of the Church of God, and that which differenceth us from Jewes, Turkes, Papists, and many heretickes.
- 12. The Law requires perfect righteousness, the Gospel brings pardon through Christ.