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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
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CHAP. IX. The Justification of the Ungodly, by the imputed Righteousness of Christ asserted and proved.
CHAP. IX. The Iustification of the Vngodly, by the imputed Righteousness of Christ asserted and proved.
Having proved and vindicated the Doctrine of Christ's Satisfaction from the Cavils of W. P. The Doctrine of Justification by Christ's imputed Righteousness, doth evidently follow from it; ⟨p. 69⟩for since there can be no Remission of sin (therefore no Justification) without Satisfaction to Gods offended Justice, as hath been proved; and since this Satisfaction cannot be given to God by Sinners themselves, and Christ only hath given it, which also hath been proved, there is no way imaginable how we can be justified, but by the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness to us, 2 Cor. 5. 21. For he hath made him to be Sin for us who knew no Sin, that we might be made the Righteousness of God in him. As Christ was made sin for us, though Innocent, by the Imputation of our sin to him, for which he was condemned and punished: So we are made the Righteousness of God in him, though guilty, by the Imputation of his Righteousness unto us, whereby we are justified. And what other meaning than Justification by Christ's imputed Righteousness can that Scripture have, which speaketh of the Blessedness of the Man, unto whom the Lord imputeth Righteousness without Works, Rom. 4. 6. That this Blessedness spoken of, is Justification, appeareth from the scope of the place which is to prove the Doctrine of Justification, and the following words also do evince it, vers. 7. Blessed is the Man whose Iniquities are forgiven, &c. That this Righteousness is not a mans own is evident, because it is a Righteousness without Works, and then whose Righteousness can it be, but the Righteousness of Christ? and that this Righteousness is imputed are the words of the Scripture, therefore the proof is firm, that we are justified by the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness. Unto which Scripture, I may add for the further clearing and Confirmation of this Doctrine of Justification by Christ's Imputed Righteousness, this Argument grounded upon Scripture.