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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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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.
III. That Iesus Christ being 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 God and Man in one person, was onely fit to make, and hath actually made satisfaction unto Gods infinite and offended Iustice for the sins of Men.
It was necessary that the person that should make satisfaction should be man, because none but a creature could suffer, and none but a man could be a fit High-Priest to offer up Sacrifice, and make reconciliation for the sins of Men, Heb. 2. 17. It was necessary he should be God, because none but God so nearly united, could strengthen the manhood, to bear up under ⟨p. 56⟩such a pressure of wrath, and break through such sufferings as had taken hold on Christ for mans sins; and if he had not been God as well as man, the sufferings and satisfaction would have been but finite, and so no proportionable satisfaction, but through the infinite dignity of his person, the satisfaction is of infinite value. That Christ hath actually made satisfaction unto Gods Justice for the sins of men, is the great Doctrine which I shall prove from the Scripture.
It was necessary that the person that should make satisfaction should be man, because none but a creature could suffer, and none but a man could be a fit High-Priest to offer up Sacrifice, and make reconciliation for the sins of Men, Heb. 2. 17. It was necessary he should be God, because none but God so neerly united, could strengthen the manhood, to bear up under ⟨p. 56⟩