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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 eighth Consequence is so abominable, that it might make the Reader tremble and wonder, that a Worm, whom the Lord could easily crush, should open his mouth thus against the glorious ⟨p. 67⟩Jehovah, as to say, that it Gods justice be satisfied by Christ, then Man is no ways beholding, or the least Obliged to God; as if we were not beholding to God for giving his Son, for accepting this Satisfaction, for giving us a share therein; are not we beholding to God for all, though Christ hath purchased all?
The eighth Consequence is so abominable, that it might make the Reader tremble and wonder, that a Worm, whom the Lord could easily crush, should open his mouth thus against the glorious ⟨p. 67⟩Iehovah, as to say, that it Gods justice be satisfied by Christ, then Man is no ways beholding, or the least Obliged to God; as if we were not beholding to God for giving his Son, for accepting this Satisfaction, for giving us a share therein; are not we beholding to God for all, though Christ hath purchased all?
The ninth Consequence, that God should hereby lose all power of enjoining Godliness, and punishing Disobedience, doth not in the least follow; for Godliness is enjoined upon all, though not in order to the meriting Eternal Life, and God threateneth to punish the Disobedient, whom if they continue to the end in their Impenitency and Unbelief, he will punish eternally in Hell, notwithstanding this Satisfaction of Christ in which they have no share; but Believers that are interested herein, God, as he hath brought them out, so he hath engaged to keep them out of a course of Disobedience; and if they do transgress in some particulars, he hath threatened to chastise them, which is not inconsistent with Christ's satisfying his justice for their sins, since Chastisement is not an act of Vindicative Justice, but Fatherly Love.
The ninth Consequence, that God should hereby lose all power of enjoyning Godliness, and punishing Disobedience, doth not in the least follow; for Godliness is enjoyned upon all, though not in order to the meriting Eternal Life, and God threatneth to punish the Disobedient, whom if they continue to the end in their Impenitency and Unbelief, he will punish eternally in Hell, notwithstanding this Satisfaction of Christ in which they have no share; but Believers that are interested herein, God, as he hath brought them out, so he hath engaged to keep them out of a course of Disobedience; and if they do transgres in some particulars, he hath threatned to chastise them, which is not inconsistent with Christ's satisfying his justice for their sins, since Chastisment is not an act of Vindicative Justice, but Fatherly Love.