A vindication of some passages in a discourse concerning communion with God from the…

This our Author would have to be God's bartering with Sin & the Devil for his Glory; the bold impiety of which expression among many others, for whose necessary expression I crave pardon, manifests with what frame of Spirit, with what Reverence of God himself and all holy things, this Discourse is managed.

But it seems I add, that the Demonstration of God's Justice in Measuring out unto ⟨p. 65⟩Sin a meet Recompense of Reward is Discovered in Christ, as this Author says. Let him read again; The Comminations and Threatenings of God in the Law, &c. If this Man were acquainted with Christ, he could not but Learn somewhat more of Truth and Modesty unless he be wilfully stupid. But what is the Crime of this Paragraph? That which it teacheth is, that Sin in its own Nature hath no End, but the dishonour of God, and the Eternal Ruin of the Sinner. That by the Sentence and Curse of the Law God hath manifested that he will Glorify his Justice in the Punishing of it, as also that in and through Jesus Christ he will Glorify Grace and Mercy in its Pardon on the Terms of the Gospel. What would he be at? If he have a mind to quarrel the Bible, and to conflict the Fundamental Principles of Christianity, to what purpose doth he cavil at my obscure Discourses, when the proper Object of his Displeasure lies plainly before him.

But it seems I add, that the Demonstration of God's Justice in Measuring out unto ⟨p. 65⟩Sin a meet Recompence of Reward is Discovered in Christ, as this Author says. Let him read again; The Comminations and Threatnings of God in the Law, &c. If this Man were acquainted with Christ, he could not but Learn somewhat more of Truth and Modesty unless he be wilfully stupid. But what is the Crime of this Paragraph? That which it teacheth is, that Sin in its own Nature hath no End, but the dishonour of God, and the Eternal Ruine of the Sinner. That by the Sentence and Curse of the Law God hath manifested that he will Glorify his Justice in the Punishing of it, as also that in and through Jesus Christ he will Glorify Grace and Mercy in its Pardon on the Terms of the Gospel. What would he be at? If he have a mind to quarrel the Bible, and to conflict the Fundamental Principles of Christianity, to what purpose doth he cavil at my obscure Discourses, when the proper Object of his Displeasure lies plainly before him.