A53669:303
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
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.
Answ. (1.) What is Worthy or unworthy of God, himself alone knows, and of men not any but according to what he is pleased to declare and reveal. But certainly, it is unworthy any Person pretending to the least Interest in Ingenuity or use of Reason, ⟨p. 197⟩to use such frivolous Instances in any case of importance which have not the least pretence of Argument in them but what ariseth from a gross misapprehension, or misrepresentation of a Doctrine designed to opposition. (2.) To pardon sinners, is a thing becoming the Goodness and Grace of God; to do it by Christ, that which becometh them, and his Holiness and Righteousness also. Rom. 3. 25. Ephes. 1. 6, 7. (3.) The Lord Christ was Personally Innocent; but He who knew no sin was made sin for us, 2 Cor. 5. 21. And as the Mediator and Surety of the Covenant, he was to answer for the sins of them whom he undertook to save from the wrath to come; by giving himself a ransom for them, and making his soul an Offering for their sin. (4) That nothing is due to the Justice of God for sin, that is, that sin doth not in the Justice of God deserve punishment, is • good comfortable Doctrine, for Men that are resolved to continue in ⟨p. 198⟩their sins whilst they live in this World. The Scripture tells us, that Christ paid what he took not; that all our iniquities were caused to meet upon him; that he bare them in his own body on the Tree; that his soul was made an offering for sin, and therei by made Reconciliation or Atonement for the sins of the People; if these Persons be otherwise minded, we cannot help it.
Answ. (1.) What is Worthy or unworthy of God, himself alone knows, and of men not any but according to what he is pleased to declare and reveal. But certainly, it is unworthy any Person pretending to the least Interest in Ingenuity or use of Reason, ⟨p. 197⟩to use such frivolous Instances in any case of importance which have not the least pretence of Argument in them but what ariseth from a gross misapprehension, or misrepresentation of a Doctrine designed to opposition. (2.) To pardon sinners, is a thing becoming the Goodness and Grace of God; to do it by Christ, that which becometh them, and his Holiness and Righteousness also.