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The foundation of God standeth sure, or, A defence of those fundamental and so…
The foundation of God standeth sure, or, A defence of those fundamental and so generally believed doctrines of the Trinity of persons in the unity of the divine essence, of the satisfaction of Christ, the second person of the real and glorious Trinity, of the justification of the ungodly by the imputed righteousness of Christ, against the cavils of W.P.J. a Quaker in his pamphlet entitled The sandy foundation shaken &c. : wherein his and the Quakers hideous blasphemies, Socinian and damnably-heretical opinions are discovered and refuted ... / by Thomas Vincent.The foundation of God standeth sure, or, A defence of those fundamental and so generally believed doctrines of the Trinity of persons in the unity of the divine essence, of the satisfaction of Christ, the second person of the real and glorious Trinity, of the justification of the ungodly by the imputed righteousness of Christ, against the cavils of W.P.J. a Quaker in his pamphlet entituled The sandy foundation shaken &c. : wherein his and the Quakers hideous blasphemies, Socinian and damnably-heretical opinions are discovered and refuted ... / by Thomas Vincent.
London : s.n., 1668
Chapter 7: The Doctrine of the satisfaction of Christ, the second person, of the real and glorious…
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CHAP. VII. The Doctrine of the satisfaction of Christ, the second person, of the real and glorious Trinity asserted and proved.
IF the doctrine of the ever glorious Trinity or three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost in one Godhead had been overthrown by W. P. or could be indeed shaken by the Socinian, which with all the argument they can device, in vain, they do endeavour, if he or they could prove (which they never can) that ⟨p. 54⟩there is but one person in the God-head; then it would follow that Christ could not be the eternal Son of God, the second person of this glorious Trinity (as W. P. most blasphemously, stileth him the second person of the imagined Trinity,) and by consequence the Doctrine of satisfaction depending upon this person, would fall to the ground, and might by invincible argument be refuted, it being impossible for any mere finite creature to make plenary satisfaction to the infinite Justice of God; But the Doctrine of the Trinity being established by Scripture Testimony, and the Lord Jesus Christ proved to be God equal with the Father, the Doctrine also of satisfaction dependent upon this second person of the real and ever glorious Trinity, will remain firm against all Quaker and Socinian attempts to overthrow it: and before I give answer unto the objections and cavils against this Doctrine. I shall briefly assert and prove the doctrine by the Word of Truth in the Holy Scripture.
IF the doctrine of the ever glorious Trinity or three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost in one Godhead had been overthrown by W. P. or could be indeed shaken by the Sociniant, which with all the argument they can device, in vain, they do endeavour, if he or they could prove (which they never can) that