A77854:736
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. That the Law is not worthy to be called the word of God.1 2. To hear the word of God, and so to live, is a consequence of the Law. 3. Repentance is not to be taught out of the Decalogue, or any Law of Moses, but from the violation of the Son of God in the Gospel. 4. We are with all our might to resist those, who teach the Gospel is not to be preached but to those whose hearts are first made contrite by the Law.
1. That the Law is not worthy to be called the word of God.1 2. To heare the word of God, and so to live, is a consequence of the Law. 3. Repentance is not to be taught out of the Decalogue, or any Law of Moses, but from the violation of the Son of God in the Gospel. 4. We are with all our might to resist those, who teach the Gospel is not to be preached but to those whose hearts are first made contrite by the Law.
- 1Positions of Antinomians.
These are Propositions of theirs set down by Luther, against which he had his disputations, Vol. 1. Thusselberge, lib. contra Antin. pag. 38. relateth more: as,
These are Propositions of theirs set downe by Luther, against which he had his disputations, Vol. 1. Thusselberge, lib. contra Antin. pag. 38. relateth more: as,
1. The Law doth not show good works, neither is it to be preached that we may do them. 2. The Law is not given to Christians; therefore they are not to be reproved by the Law. 3. The Preachers under the Gospel are only to preach the Gospel, not the Law; because Christ did not say, Preach the Law, but Gospel to every creature. 4. The Legal Sermons of the Prophets do not at all belong to us. 5. To say, that the Law is a rule of good works, is blasphemy in Divinity.