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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.
Others by Kingdom of heaven do understand the Church of God, and so they express it, when there shall be a reformation in the Church, and truth should break forth, which was presently to come to pass, then those corrupt teachers, who would poison men, should be discovered, and then they should be least, that is, of no account; even as it fell out to the Pharisees, though for a while they were highly esteemed among men. I forbear to touch upon that Question hotly disputed with some, Whether our Saviour do in this discourse mean only the Moral Law, or the Ceremonial also, as being not to my purpose. That it is meant chiefly of the Moral Law, appeareth by the instances which Christ giveth. From the Text thus opened, I observe, That any doctrine, which teacheth the abrogation or dissolution Doctr. of the Law, is highly offensive unto God.1
Others by Kingdome of heaven doe understand the Church of God, and so they expresse it, when there shall be a reformation in the Church, and truth should break forth, which was presently to come to passe, then those corrupt teachers, who would poyson men, should be discovered, and then they should be least, that is, of no account; even as it fell out to the Pharisees, though for a while they were highly esteemed among men. I forbeare to touch upon that Question hotly disputed with some, Whether our Saviour doe in this discourse meane onely the Morall Law, or the Ceremoniall also, as being not to my purpose. That it is meant chiefly of the Morall Law, appeareth by the instances which Christ giveth. From the Text thus opened, I observe, That any doctrine, which teacheth the abrogation or dissolution Doctr. of the Law, is highly offensive unto God.1
- 1The doctrines of men may either directly or covertly overthrow the Law. Covertly, three ways.The doctrines of men may either directly or covertly overthrow the Law. Covertly, three waies.
For the opening of this consider, that the doctrines of men may either directly, and with an open face overthrow the Law, as the Marcionites and Manichees did: or else interpretatively, and more covertly; and that is done three ways.