I have only to add; that in handling the Doctrine of the Satisfaction of Christ, I have proceeded on that Principle, which as it is fully confirmed in the Scripture, so it hath constantly been maintained and adhered unto by the most of those, who with Judgement and Success have managed these Controversies against the Socinians. And this is that the Essential Holiness of God, with his Justice or Righteousness, as the Supreme Governor of all, did indispensably require that sin should not absolutely go unpunished; and that it should do so, stands in a Repugnancy to those Holy Properties of his Nature. This I say, hath been ⟨image 8⟩always constantly maintained by far the greatest number of them, who have throughly understood the Controversy in this matter, and have successfully engaged in it. And as their Arguments for their Assertion, are plainly unanswerable, so the neglect of abiding by it, is causelessly to forego one of the most fundamental and invincible Principles in our Cause. He who first laboured in the defence of the Doctrine of the Satisfaction of Christ, after Socinus had formed his imaginations about the salvation that he wrought, and began to dispute about it, was Covetous, a Learned man, who laid the foundation of his whole ⟨image 9⟩Disputation in the Justice of God, necessarily requiring and indispensably the punishment of sin. And indeed the state of the Controversy as it is laid down by Socinus, in his Book De Jesu Christo servatore, which is an Answer to this Covetous, is genuine, and that which ought not to be receded from, as having been the direct ground of all the Controversial Writings on that subject, which have since been published in Europe. And it is in these words laid down by Socinus himself. Communis & Orthodoxa (ut asseris) sententia est, Jesum Christum ideo servatorem nostrum esse, quia divinae Justiciae per quam peccatores ⟨image 9⟩damnari merebamur, pro peccatis nostris plene satisfecerit; quae satisfactio Per fidem imputatur Nobis ex dono Dei credentibus. This he ascribes to Covet. The Common and Orthodox Judgement is, that Jesus Christ is therefore our Saviour, because he hath satisfied the Justice of God, by which we being sinners deserved to be condemned, for all our sins. In opposition whereunto he thus expresseth his own opinion.
I have only to add; that in handling the Doctrine of the Satisfaction of Christ, I have proceeded on that Principle, which as it is fully confirmed in the Scripture, so it hath constantly been maintained and adhered unto by the most of those, who with Judgement and Success have managed these Controversies against the Socinians. And this is that the Essential Holiness of God, with his Justice or Righteousness, as the Supream Governour of all, did indispensibly require that sin should not absolutely go unpunished; and that it should do so, stands in a Repugnancy to those Holy Properties of his Nature. This I say, hath been ⟨image 8⟩alwayes constantly maintained by far the greatest number of them, who have throughly understood the Controversie in this matter, and have successfully engaged in it. And as their Arguments for their Assertion, are plainly unanswerable, so the neglect of abiding by it, is causelesly to forego one of the most fundamental and invincille Principles in our Cause. He who first laboured in the defence of the Doctrine of the Satisfaction of Christ, after Socinus had formed his imaginations about the salvation that he wrought, and began to dispute about it, was Covetus, a Learned man, who laid the foundation of his whole ⟨image 9⟩Disputation in the Justice of God, necessarily requiring and indispensibly the punishment of sin. And indeed the state of the Controversie as it is laid down by Socinus, in his Book De Jesu Christo servatore, which is an Answer to this Covetus, is genuine, and that which ought not to be receded from, as having been the direct ground of all the Controversial Writings on that subject, which have since been published in Europe. And it is in these words laid down by Socinus himself. Communis & Orthodoxa (ut asseris) sententia est, Iesum Christum ideo servatorem nostrum esse, quia divinae Justiciae per quam peccatores ⟨image 9⟩damnari merebamur, pro peccatis nostris plene satisfecerit; quae satisfactio Per fidem imputatur Nobis ex dono Dei credentibus. This he ascribes to Covet. The Common and Orthodox Judgement is, that Jesus Christ is therefore our Saviour, because he hath satisfied the Justice of God, by which we being sinners deserved to be condemned, for all our sins. In opposition whereunto he thus expresseth his own opinion.
