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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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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 ⟨p. 60⟩in their stead. God indeed proclaims himself to be gracious and merciful, whereby he declares what he is in his Son, whom he had before promised to give, and in whom alone all Nations of the Earth that ever should obtain his favour were to be blessed. 2 Chron. 32 9. If you turn again to the Lord, the Lord is gracious and merciful, &c. I deny the consequence from this Scripture, that Gods remission is grounded on Mens repentance, but his grace and mercy through Christ is the reason of his invitation of sinners to repent and turn unto him, as is evident from that Scripture, Eph. 1. 6. that we are made accepted only in the beloved, without whole satisfaction and intercession, the repentance and reformation of sinners would not in the least avail for remission and acceptation.
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 beames 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 threatneth, 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 satisfie his justice