A53669:316
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. This is but a bold Repetition ⟨p. 206⟩of what in other words was mentioned before over and over. Wherein the Love of God in this matter consisted, and what is the obligation on us unto thankfulness and obedience, hath been before also declared. And we are not to be moved in Fundamental Truths, by vain exclamations of weak and unstable Men. It is said,
9. That Gods Justice is satisfied for sins past, present and to come, whereby God and Christ have lost both their power of enjoining Godliness, and prerogative of punishing disobedience; for what is once paid, is not revokable; and if punishment should arrest any for their debts, it argues a breach on God or Christs part; or e•se that it hath not been sufficiently solved; and the penalty complete sustained by another.
9. That Gods Justice is satisfied for sins past, present and to come, whereby God and Christ have lost both their power of inj•yning Godliness, and prerogative of punishing disobedience; for what is once paid, is not revokable; and if punishment should arrest any for their debts, it argues a breach on God or Christs part; or e•se that it hath not been sufficiently solved; and the penalty compleat sustained by another.
Answ. The intention of this pretended consequence of our Doctrine is, that upon a supposition of satisfaction made by Christ, there is no solid foundation remaining for the prescription ⟨p. 207⟩of Faith, Repentance, and Obedience on the one hand, or of punishing them who refuse so to obey, believe, or repent, on the other. The Reason of this Inference insinuated, seems to be this; that sin being satisfied for, cannot be called again to an Account. For the former part of the pretended consequence, namely that on this supposition, there is no foundation left for the prescription of Godliness, I cannot discern any thing in the least looking towards the confirmation of it, in the words of the Objection laid down. But these things are quite otherwise; as is manifest unto them that read and obey the Gospel. For (1.) Christs satisfaction for sins, acquits not the creature of that dependence on God, and duty which he owes to God, which notwithstanding that, God may Justly, and doth prescribe unto him, suitable to his own Nature, Holiness and Will. The whole of our regard unto God, doth not lye in an acquitment from