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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The consequences, which he further deduceth from this Doctrine of Satisfaction, he very fitly stileth irreligious and irrational; but I deny they are deducible from this Doctrine.
The consequences, which he further deduceth from this Doctrine of Satisfaction, he very fitly stileth irreligious and irrational; but I deny they are deducable from this Doctrine.
To the First, Who do ascribe more Grace and Mercy to God, then we who do apprehend it in his Son? How then do we say it is unlawful and impossible he should be gracious?
To the Second, What compulsion or force doth this Doctrine infer to be laid upon God in the exercise of his justice? when he doth exercise his justice freely, as he doth love his Image, in his people freely, yet both are necessary, because natural, and neither forced and compelled by any external Agent.
To the Second, What compaltion or force doth this Doctrine inser to be laid upon God in the exercise of his justice? when he doth exercise his justice freely, as he doth love his Image, in his people freely, yet both are necessary, because natural, and neither forced and compeld by any external Agent.