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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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II. That no sinners themselves by any thing they can do or suffer in this life, can give satisfaction unto Gods Justice for their sins. And the reason is because whatever good they do is no more than duty, wherein also they must have Divine help to enable them, and when they have done their duty, their works are but imperfect and they unprofitable servants, and this can make no compensation for their faults before, Luk. 17. 10. When have done all the things commanded, say we are unprofitable servants, &c. Our righteousnesses are as filthy rags, Isa. 64. 6. And what ever sinners suffer in this life, it is infinitely short of what their sins have deserved; Gods Justice is infinite and requireth an infinite satisfaction; sinners are finite and therefore there is no proportion between any thing they can bring, and what Gods Justice doth require for satisfaction.
II. That no sinners themselves by any thing they can do or suffer in this life, can give satisfaction unto Gods Iustice for their sins. And the reason is because whatever good they do is no more than duty, wherein also they must have Divine help to enable them, and when they have done their duty, their works are but imperfect and they unprofitable servants, and this can make no compensation for their faults before, Luk. 17. 10. When have done all the things commanded, say we are unprofitable servants, &c. Our righteousnesses are as filthy raggs, Isa. 64. 6. And what ever sinners suffer in this life, it is infinitely short of what their sins have deserved; Gods Justice is infinite and requierth an infinite satisfaction; sinners are finite and therefore there is no porportion between any thing they can bring, and what Gods Justice doth require for satisfaction.
III. That Jesus Christ being [Greek or Hebrew] God and Man in one person, was only fit to make, and hath actually made satisfaction unto Gods infinite and offended Justice for the sins of Men.