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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.
Thus then justification is of grace, because thy holiness doth not only not deserve this, but the clean contrary. Now what a cordial may this be to the broken heart, exercised with its sins? How may the sick say, There I find health? the poor say, There I find riches? And as for the Papists, who say they set up grace, and they acknowledge grace; yet first it must be set down in what sense we take grace. It is not every man that talketh of grace, doth therefore set up Scripture-grace. Who knoweth not that the Pelagians set up grace? They determined, that whosoever did not acknowledge grace necessary to every good act all the day long, let him be an anathema: and this fair colour did deceive the Eastern Churches, that they did acquit him: But Austin and others observed, that hee did gratiae vocabulo uti ad frangendam invidiam; even as the Papists do at this time: therefore if they say, Thy patience is grace, Thy hope is grace, and therefore by grace thou art saved; say, This is not the Gospel-grace, the Scripture-grace, by which sins are pardoned, and we saved.
Thus then justification is of grace, because thy holinesse doth not onely not deserve this, but the cleane contrary. Now what a cordiall may this be to the broken heart, exercised with its sinnes? How may the sicke say, There I finde health? the poore say, There I finde riches? And as for the Papists, who say they set up grace, and they acknowledge grace; yet first it must be set downe in what sense wee take grace. It is not every man that talketh of grace, doth therefore set up Scripture-grace. Who knoweth not that the Pelagians set up grace? They determined, that whosoever did not acknowledge grace necessary to every good act all the day long, let him be an anathema: and this faire colour did deceive the Easterne Churches, that they did acquit him: But Austine and others observed, that hee did gratiae vocabulo uti ad frangendam invidiam; even as the Papists doe at this time: therefore if they say, Thy patience is grace, Thy hope is grace, and therefore by grace thou art saved; say, This is not the Gospel-grace, the Scripture-grace, by which sinnes are pardoned, and wee saved.
2. It opposeth Christ in his fullness: It makes an half-Christ.