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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.
For the opening of this consider, 1. That an end may be taken either for that of consumption and abolition; or for that of perfection and confirming: Finis interficiens, and finis perficiens, as Austin called it. Now, in the former sense, Christ was the end of the Ceremonial Law, the end abolishing; although that was also an end of perfection to them: and so some understand it of the Ceremonial Law, and the Prophesies: They all shadowed out Christ, and ended in him. And this indeed is a truth, but it is not pertinent to the scope of the Apostle, who speaketh of such a Law, that the Jews expected righteousness by in the performing of it; which must be the Moral Law only.
For the opening of this consider, 1. That an end may be taken either for that of consumption and abolition; or for that of perfection and confirming: Finis interficiens, and finis perficiens, as Austine called it. Now, in the former sense, Christ was the end of the Ceremoniall Law, the end abolishing; although that was also an end of perfection to them: and so some understand it of the Ceremoniall Law, and the Prophesies: They all shadowed out Christ, and ended in him. And this indeed is a truth, but it is not pertinent to the scope of the Apostle, who speaketh of such a Law, that the Jewes expected righteousnesse by in the performing of it; which must be the Morall Law only.
Now, when we speak of the Moral Law, having Christ for the end of it, then in the second place, that may be considered two ways:
Now, when we speak of the Morall Law, having Christ for the end of it, then in the second place, that may be considered two waies:
1. Either rigidly, and in an abstracted consideration from the administration