A77854:733
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.
Is there not also a generation of men, who do by doctrine deny the fourth Commandment? How many late books and practices have been for that opinion? but hath it not fallen out according to the later exposition of my Text, that they are the least in the Kingdom of heaven; men of little account now in the Church while reforming?
Is there not also a generation of men, who doe by doctrine deny the fourth Commandement? How many late books and practices have been for that opinion? but hath it not fallen out according to the later exposition of my Text, that they are the least in the Kingdome of heaven; men of little account now in the Church while reforming?
I might likewise speak of some Anabaptists, (for there are of that sect that disclaim the opinion) who overthrow the fifth Commandment, by denying Magistracy lawful for Christians.
I might likewise speak of some Anabaptists, (for there are of that sect that disclaime the opinion) who overthrow the fifth Commandement, by denying Magistracy lawfull for Christians.
But I will range no further: The Antinomians do more fall against this Text then any, in that they do not only by doctrine teach the dis-obligation of the least commandment, but of all, even of the whole Law. This doth appear true in the first Antinomians in Luther's time, of whom Islebius was the captain: he was a School-master, and also Professor of Divinity at Islebia. It seemeth he was a man like a reed shaken with every wind: for first he defended, with the Orthodox, the Saxon Confession of Faith; but afterwards was one of those that compiled the Book called the Interim. When Luther admonished him of his error, he promised amendment, but for all that secretly ⟨p. 267⟩