A26951:1374
The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…
The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb. 11, 1, formerly preached before His Majesty, and published by his command, with another added for the fuller application : the second is instructions for confirming believers in the Christian faith : the third is directions how to live by faith, or how to exercise it upon all occasions / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1670
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.
Error 5. That God were unjust if he laid any degree of punishment on those that Christ died for; or (say others) on the justified; because he should punish one sin twice.
Errour 5. That God were unjust if he laid any degree of punishment on those that Christ died for; or (say others) on the justified; because he should punish one sin twice.
Contr. It is certain, that God punisheth the Justified in some degree (much more the Elect before conversion) and it is certain that God is not unjust. Therefore it is certain that the ground of this accusation is false; for it was not our deserved punishment it self, or the same which was due in the true sense of the Law which Christ endured: but it was the punishment of a voluntary sponsor, which was the equivalens, and not the idem that was due; and did answer the ends of the Law, but not fulfil the meaning of the threatening; which threatened the sinner himself, and not another for him: seeing then it was a satisfaction, or sacrifice for sin, which God received for an atonement and propitiation, and not a solution or suffering of the sinner himself in the sense of the Law, the charge of injustice on God is groundless.
Contr. It is certain, that God punisheth the Justified in some degree (much more the Elect before conversion) and it is certain that God is not unjust. Therefore it is certain that the ground of this accusation is false; for it was not our deserved punishment it self, or the same which was due in the true sense of the Law which Christ endured: but it was the punishment of a voluntary sponsor, which was the equivalens, and not the idem that was due; and did answer the ends of the Law, but not fulfill the meaning of the threatning; which threatned the sinner himself, and not another for him: seeing then it was a satisfaction, or sacrifice for sin, which God received for an attonement and propitiation, and not a solution or suffering of the sinner himself in the sense of the Law, the charge of injustice on God is groundless.