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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.
In the second place, Christ is the end of perfection to the Law: for, 1the end of the Law being to justify, and to bring to eternal life, this could not be attained by our own power and industry; not by any defect of the Law, but by reason of our infirmity. Therefore Christ he hath brought about this intent of the Law, that we should be justified, and have life. If the end of humane laws be to make good and honest men, much rather is the end of the Moral Law appointed by God himself: But the Law is so far from making us good, as that it worketh in us all evil, which effect of the Law in himself the Apostle acknowledgeth: so that as good food and nourishment received by a diseased stomach, doth increase the disease more, according to that rule, Corpora impura, quantò magis nutrias, deteriora reddis; thus it is in every man by nature: The Law, which is for holiness and life, becometh to cause sin and death. Christ therefore, that the Law may have its end, he taketh our nature upon him, that the righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us.
In the second place, Christ is the end of perfection to the Law: for, 1the end of the Law being to justifie, and to bring to eternall life, this could not be attained by our owne power and industry; not by any defect of the Law, but by reason of our infirmity. Therefore Christ he hath brought about this intent of the Law, that we should be justified, and have life. If the end of humane lawes be to make good and honest men, much rather is the end of the Morall Law appointed by God himselfe: But the Law is so far from making us good, as that it worketh in us all evill, which effect of the Law in himselfe the Apostle acknowledgeth: so that as good food and nourishment received by a diseased stomack, doth increase the disease more, according to that rule, Corpora impura, quantò magis nutrias, deteriora reddis; thus it is in every man by nature: The Law, which is for holinesse and life, becometh to cause sinne and death. Christ therefore, that the Law may have its end, he taketh our nature upon him, that the righteousnesse of the Law might be fulfilled in us.
- 12. Christ is the end of perfection to the Law.