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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.
1. Either rigidly, and in an abstracted consideration from the administration 1of it, as it doth require perfect obedience, and condemning those that have it not: now in this sense Christ cannot be the scope, or end of the Law, but it is merely by accident, and occasional, that a soul abased and condemned by the Law doth seek out for a Christ: only you must know, that the Law, even so taken, doth not exclude a Christ, It requireth indeed a perfect righteousness of our own; yet if we bring the righteousness of a surety, though this be not commanded by the Law, yet it is not against the Law, or excluded by it; otherwise it would have been unjustice in God to have accepted of Christ our surety for us.
1. Either rigidly, and in an abstracted consideration from the administration 1of it, as it doth require perfect obedience, and condemning those that have it not: now in this sense Christ cannot be the scope, or end of the Law, but it is meerly by accident, and occasionall, that a soule abased and condemned by the Law doth seek out for a Christ: onely you must know, that the Law, even so taken, doth not exclude a Christ, It requireth indeed a perfect righteousnesse of our owne; yet if we bring the righteousnesse of a surety, though this be not commanded by the Law, yet it is not against the Law, or excluded by it; otherwise it would have been unjustice in God to have accepted of Christ our surety for us.
- 1The Law, as it is considered rigidly, and in the abstract, so Christ is not the end thereof, unless it be by accident.
2. Or else the Law may be taken in a more large way for the administration 1of it by Moses, in all the particulars of it; and thus Christ was intended directly, and not by accident; that is, God when he gave the Law to the people of Israel, did intend that the sense of their impossibility to keep it, and infinite danger accruing thereby to them, should make them desire and seek out for Christ: which the Jews generally not understanding, or neglecting, did thereby, like Adam, go to make fig-leaves for their covering of their nakedness, their empty, external obedience.