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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. In regard one is the ministry of death and condemnation, the 1other of life and righteousness: Therefore the one is called Letter, and the other Spirit. Now this you must understand warily, taking the Law nakedly, and in it self, without the Spirit of God, and the Gospel with the Spirit; for, as Beza well observeth, if you take the Gospel without Gods Spirit, that also is the ministration of death, because it is as impossible for us to believe, as it is to obey the Law by our own power: only life and spirit is attributed to the Gospel, and not to the Law; because Christ, who is the author of the Gospel, is the fountain of life; and when any good is wrought by the Law, it cometh from the spirit of Christ.
1. In regard one is the ministery of death and condemnation, the 1other of life and righteousnesse: Therefore the one is called Letter, and the other Spirit. Now this you must understand warily, taking the Law nakedly, and in it selfe, without the Spirit of God, and the Gospel with the Spirit; for, as Beza well observeth, if you take the Gospel without Gods Spirit, that also is the ministration of death, because it is as impossible for us to beleeve, as it is to obey the Law by our owne power: only life and spirit is attributed to the Gospel, and not to the Law; because Christ, who is the authour of the Gospel, is the fountaine of life; and when any good is wrought by the Law, it cometh from the spirit of Christ.
- 11. Because it is the ministry of life and righteousness, the Law of death and condemnation.1. Because it is the ministery of life and righteousness, the Law of death and condemnation.
The second excellency is in regard of continuance and duration. The 1