A77854:94
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. How cautelous and wary the Ministers of God ought to be in this 1matter, so to set forth grace, as not to give just exception to the popish caviller; and so to defend holy works, as not to give the Antinomian cause of insultation. While our Protestant authors were diligent in digging out that precious gold of justification by free-grace, out of the mine of the Scripture; see what Canons the Council of Trent made against them, as Antinomian: Can. 19. If any man shall say, Decem praecepta nihil ad Christianos pertinere, anathema sit. Again, Can. 20. Si quis dixerit hominem justificatum non teneri ad observantiam mandatorum, sed tantùm ad credendum, anathema sit. Again, Can. 21. Si quis dixerit Christum Jesum datum fuisse hominibus ut redemptorem cui fidant, non autem ut legislatorem cui obediant, anathema sit. You may gather by these their Canons, that we hold such opinions as, indeed, the Antinomian doth: but our Writers answer, Here they grossly mistake us; and, if this were all the controversy, we should quickly agree. It is no wonder then if it be so hard to preach free-grace, and not provoke the Papist; or, on the other side, to preach good works of the Law, and not offend the Antinomian.
1. How cautelous and wary the Ministers of God ought to be in this 1matter, so to set forth grace, as not to give just exception to the popish caviller; and so to defend holy works, as not to give the Antinomian cause of insultation. While our Protestant authors were diligent in digging out that precious gold of justification by free-grace, out of the mine of the Scripture; see what Canons the Councell of Trent made against them, as Antinomian: Can. 19. If any man shall say, Decem praecepta nihil ad Christianos pertinere, anathema sit. Againe, Can. 20. Si quis dixerit hominem justificatum non teneri ad observantiam mandatorum, sed tantùm ad credendum, anathema sit. Againe, Can. 21. Si quis dixerit Christum Jesum datum fuisse hominibus ut redemptorem cui fidant, non autem ut legislatorem cui obediant, anathema sit. You may gather by these their Canons, that wee hold such opinions as, indeed, the Antinomian doth: but our Writers answer, Here they grossely mistake us; and, if this were all the controversie, we should quickly agree. It is no wonder then if it be so hard to preach free-grace, and not provoke the Papist; or, on the otherside, to preach good workes of the Law, and not offend the Antinomian.