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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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W. P. in his title The impossibility of Gods pardoning offin, without a plenary satisfaction refuted, seemeth to insinuate that he denieth only the impossibility of Gods pardoning sin without satisfaction; but whoever readeth his arguments shall find them to be the very same, which the Socinians use against Satisfaction it self, and that he plainly denieth the thing; therefore I shall not concern my self, to enquire what God could or might do, if he pleased; but what he hath decreed and determined to do, and declared in the Scripture to be his will; and here I affirm
W. P. in his title The impossibility of Gods pardoning offin, without a plenary satisfaction refuted, seemeth to infinuate that he denyeth onely the impossibility of Gods pardoning sin without satisfaction; but whoever readeth his arguments shall finde them to be the very same, which the Socinians use against Satisfaction it self, and that he plainly denyeth the thing; therefore I shall not concern my self, to enquire what God could or might do, if he pleased; but what he hath decreed and determined to do, and declared in the Scripture to be his will; and here I affirm
1. That God never doth, nor will, nor can pardon any, sinner without satisfaction made to his offended Justice for their sins. And that because his holiness, righteousness, and truth, obligeth him to take vengeance upon all that have transgressed his Law; the Lord is so Holy ⟨p. 55⟩that he hateth all the workers of iniquity, Psal. 5. 5. and what is Gods hatred, but Percatum pro merito suo veil punire, as Bradsh. de Just. his will to punish sin and sinners according to their desert? His Justice doth engage him by no means to clear the guilty, Exod. 34. 7. and his truth would be infringed, if he should not curse every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the Book of the Law to do them,