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Universal redemption of mankind, by the Lord Jesus Christ stated and cleared by the…
Universal redemption of mankind, by the Lord Jesus Christ stated and cleared by the late learned Mr. Richard Barter [sic] ; whereunto is added a short account of Special redemption, by the same author.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1694
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.
Let us then consider what is the proper use of satisfaction as such, and what it was that made satisfaction necessary.
And it is evident that it was the justice of God Creator, as Rector according to the Law of Works, and the misery of Man that ha• offended God by the breach of that Law, and was become liable to the Penalty, which he could not bear without his everlasting undoing These made satisfaction necessary.; God's Justice required that either the Sinner must perish or satisfaction by an Expiatory Sacrifice must b• made, by which the remote and main ends •• the violated Law might be as well attained • ⟨p. 417⟩by the Sinners Damnation they would have been; so that it was the death which was become due to Mankind which required the death of Christ their Sacrifice, (as on Man's part;) and God's Justice which would not remit sin but on a valuable consideration for the demonstration of its self, and of God's Holiness, which required it on God's part; so that you see, that on our part, which required a Sacrifice was guilt, that is, obligation to everlasting punishment. And it doth not belong to the satisfier as such, to see that the guilt be actually done away quoad eventum, or that the Damnation be actually escaped: but that a sufficient Sacrifice or satisfaction be given, on consideration whereof Remission and Salvation may be given on the terms as the Legislators and Redeemers Wisdom shall appoint.
And it is evident that it was the justice of God Creator, as Rector according to the Law of Works, and the misery of Man that ha• offended God by the breach of that Law, and was become liable to the Penalty, which he could not bear without his everlasting undoing These made satisfaction necessary.; God's Justice required that either the Sinner must peris• or satisfaction by an Expiatory Sacrifice must b made, by which the remote and main ends the violated Law might be as well attained