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Christs eternal existence, and the dignity of his person asserted and proved in opposition…
Christs eternal existence, and the dignity of his person asserted and proved in opposition to the doctrine of the Socinians : in several sermons on Col. I, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 verses / by the Reverend Tho. Manton.
London printed : s.n., 1685
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3. His Holy Nature would not permit it. There needed some way to be found out, to signify his purest Holiness, his hatred and detestation of sin, and that it should not be pardoned without some marks of his displeasure. His soul hates the wicked, and the righteous God loveth Righteousness, Psal. 11.6.
3. His Holy Nature would not permit it. There needed some way to be found out, to signifie his purest Holiness, his hatred and detestation of sin, and that it should not be pardoned without some markes of his displeasure. His soul hates the wicked, and the righteous God loveth Righteousness, Psal. 11.6.
4. His Authority. It would be a derogation from the Authority of his Law, if it might be broken, and there be no more ado about it. Now that all the World might know, that it is a dangerous thing to transgress his Laws and might hear and fear, and do no more presumptuously, God appointed this course, that the penalty of his Law should be executed upon our surety, when he undertook our Reconciliation with God, Gal. 4.4.
5. The Veracity and Truth of God. It bindeth the Truth of God which sinners are apt to question; Gen. 3.5. Hath God said? And Deut. 29.19, 20. We look upon the Threatenings of the Law as a vain Scare-crow, therefore for the Terror and warning of sinners for the future, God would not release his Wrath, nor release us from the power of Sin and Satan, which was the consequent of it, without a price and valuable compensation.