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Mount Pisgah, or, A prospect of heaven being an exposition on the fourth chapter…Movnt Pisgah, or, A prospect of heaven being an exposition on the fourth chapter…
Mount Pisgah, or, A prospect of heaven being an exposition on the fourth chapter of the first epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, from the 13th verse, to the end of the chapter, divided into three parts / by Tho. Case ...Movnt Pisgah, or, A prospect of heaven being an exposition on the fourth chapter of the first epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, from the 13th verse, to the end of the chapter, divided into three parts / by Tho. Case ...
London: printed by Thomas Milbourn for Dorman Newman, 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.
Behold what can be desired more, to make commutations of parties, in public contracts, authentic in Courts of Justice, than Consent of all parties, the Allowance of the Judg, and Public Record?
Behold what can be desired more, to make commutations of parties, in publick contracts, authentique in Courts of Justice, than Consent of all parties, the Allowance of the Judg, and Publique Record?
And if this self-same commutation of Penance must be allowed of by those who are for justification by way of satisfaction only, 1why should it seem incongruous in this other branch of justification, sc. by imputed Righteousness? Surely, God would have the Active as well as the Passive obedience, as near the same, required by the Law, as might be, that he might dispense with as little of the Law as was possible.
And if this self-same commutation of Pennance must be allowed of by those who are for justification by way of satisfaction only, 1why should it seem incongruous in this other branch of justification, sc. by imputed Righteousness? Surely, God would have the Active as well as the Passive obedience, as near the same, required by the Law, as might be, that he might dispence with as little of the Law as was possible.
- 1Bellar. de justific. li. 2. ca. 7. Sec. 4. Staple•on, &c. Their own argument will serve to prove the necessity of imputation of Christs active obedience to the Law for justification, because, Nothing, say they, can satisfy for sin (which is an infinite wrong to God) but that only which is infinite in value. By the same reason, Nothing can give us right and title to Eternal Life, (which is an infinite reward) but that which is of infinite worth.