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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 8: An Answer to W. Ps cavils against the Doctrine of Christs Satisfaction.
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CHAP. VIII. An Answer to W. P's cavils against the Doctrine of Christs Satisfaction.
CHAP. VIII. An Answer to W. Ps cavils against the Doctrine of Christs Satisfaction.
The Apostle Peter telleth us, 2 Pet. 3. 16. Of some unlearned & unstable persons who wrest the Scriptures to their own destruction. W. P. hath plainly discovered himself to be such a one whom the Apostle doth speak of, as will appear in the review of the Scriptures he allegeth against Christs satisfaction, wherein I shall show how they are wrested by him.
THe Apostle Peter telleth us, 2 Pet. 3. 16. Of some unlearned & unstable persons who wrest the Scriptures to their own destruction. W. P. hath plainly discovered himself to be such a one whom the Apostle doth speak of, as will appear in the review of the Scriptures he alledgeth against Christs satisfaction, wherein I shall shew how they are wrested by him.
Exod. 34. 6, 7. The Lord passed by, &c. proclaimed The Lord, the Lord God gracious and merciful, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, transgression and sin. If W. P. had read and considered, and believed the following words in the same 7. verse. And will by no means clear the guilty; the beams of Gods justice and holiness might have shined with such a lustre in his face, as that he should not have dared to offer such an affront and indignity thereunto, and incur the guilt which God there threateneth, he will not clear men of (without the supposition of a satisfaction to his offended justice) to set up his mercy and love as inconsistent herewith; and what blasphemy as well as absurdity is this to say, that God could not be gracious, should he exact the utmost farthing, when he is so much the more gracious unto men in exacting nothing from them, but taking his whole satisfaction at the hands of Christ, whom of free grace he sent into the World to dye, and hereby to satisfy his justice