A53669:282
A brief declaration and vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity as also of…
A brief declaration and vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity as also of the person and satisfaction of Christ / accommodated to the capacity and use of such as may be in danger to be seduced, and the establishment of the truth by J. Owen.
London: printed by R.W. for Nath. Ponder, 1669
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(2.) The Sanction and penalty of the Law, which is the Rule of punishment, was as I suppose, an effect of Justice, of Gods natural and essential Justice, and not of his Anger or Wrath. Certainly never did any man make a Law for the Government of a people in anger. Draco's Laws were not made in wrath, but according to the best apprehension of right and Justice that he had, though ⟨p. 182⟩said to be written in blood. And shall we think otherwise of the Law of God?
(3.) Anger and Wrath in God express the effects of Justice; and so are not merely free acts of his will. This therefore is a tottering cause, that is built on the denial of Gods Essential Righteousness. But it was proved before, and it is so elsewhere.
(3.) Anger and Wrath in God express the effects of Justice; and so are not meerly free acts of his will. This therefore is a tottering cause, that is built on the denyal of Gods Essential Righteousness. But it was proved before, and it is so elsewhere.
(3.) They say that the Sacrifice of Christ was Metaphorically only so. That he was a metaphorical Priest, not one properly so called. And therefore that his Sacrifice did not consist in his death and blood-shedding, but in his appearing in Heaven upon his Ascension, presenting himself unto God in the most Holy Place not made with hands as the Mediator of the new Covenant.
(3.) They say that the Sacrifice of Christ was Metaphorically only so. That he was a metaphorical Priest, not one properly so called. And therefore that his Sacrifice did not consist in his death and blood-shedding, but in his appearing in Heaven upon his Ascersion, presenting himself unto God in the most Holy Place not made with hands as the Mediator of the new Covenant.