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TroposchemmalogiaTroposchēmalogia
Troposchemmalogia: Tropes and figures; or, A treatise of the metaphors, allegories, and express similitudes, &c. contained in the Bible of the Old and New Testament To which is prefixed, divers arguments to prove the divine authority of the Holy Scriptures wherein also 'tis largely evinced, that by the great whore, mystery Babylon is meant the Papal hierarchy, or present state and church of Rome. Philologia sacra, the second part. Wherein the schemes, or figures in Scripture, are reduced under their proper heads, with a brief explication of each. Together with a treatise of types, parables, &c. with an improvement of them parallel-wise. By B. KTroposchēmalogia: Tropes and figures; or, A treatise of the metaphors, allegories, and express similitudes, &c. contained in the Bible of the Old and New Testament To which is prefixed, divers arguments to prove the divine authority of the Holy Scriptures wherein also 'tis largely evinced, that by the great whore, mystery Babylon is meant the Papal hierarchy, or present state and church of Rome. Philologia sacra, the second part. Wherein the schemes, or figures in Scripture, are reduced under their proper heads, with a brief explication of each. Together with a treatise of types, parables, &c. with an improvement of them parallel-wise. By B. K
London: printed by John Darby, 1682
Tropes and Figures; OR, A TREATISE of the METAPHORS, ALLEGORIES, TY… › Head 10 › Sin a Debt.
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In the actual Condonation and Pardon of them. Secondly; It is free on the part of the Persons that are forgiven, in that, (1.) It is given and granted to them, without any Satisfaction made by them, or a Surety of their procurement, they being not able to find any. (2.) Without any Merit to purchase or procure it. (3.) Without any penal satisfactory Suffering here or hereafter. (4.) Without any expectation of a future Recompense, or being once pardoned, they should make or give any Satisfaction for what they had done before. And as none ⟨p. 339⟩none of those Things would, so nothing else can impeach the Freedom of Pardon and Forgiveness. Whether then we respect the Pardoner, or the Pardoned, Pardon is every way free, namely on the part of God who forgives, and on the part of Sinners that are forgiven. If God hath now, besides all this, provided himself a Lamb for a Sacrifice; if he hath, in infinite Wisdom and Grace, found out a way thus freely to forgive us our Debts, to the Praise and Glory of his own Holiness, Righteousness, and Severity against Sin, as well as to the magnifying of his Grace, Goodness, and rich Bounty, which he immediately exerciseth in the Pardon of Sin: Are any Mans Eyes evil, because he is good? Will they not be contented to be pardoned, unless they may have it at the rate of spoiling or robbing God of his Holiness, Truth, Righteousness, and Faithfulness. Dr. Owen. Object. But doth not this Doctrine set forth God to be severe to his own Son, to substitute him in the Sinners room, to bear his Wrath, and suffer for their Sins? Answ. God laid nothing upon his blessed Son, but what Christ offered himself freely to undergo for Man's sake; and had it not every way consisted with his own Glory, thus to deliver up the Lord Jesus, to satisfy both Law and Justice, doubtless he would never have sent him into the World. And if it had been only to make Christ a Pattern of Humility, and of Patience under Suffering, that God laid these things upon him which he endured, it might have left some room for Men so to speak, in that others might, as indeed many of the Godly have been made Examples upon that account. Object. If God cannot pardon Sin without Satisfaction, he is more weak and imperfect than Man. Answ. 1. God cannot do many Things that Man can do; not that he is more imperfect than they, but he cannot do them upon the account of his Perfection:
In the actual Condonation and Pardon of them. Secondly; It is free on the part of the Persons that are forgiven, in that, (1.) It is given and granted to them, without any Satisfaction made by them, or a Surety of their procurement, they being not able to find any. (2.) Without any Merit to purchase or procure it. (3.) Without any penal satisfactory Suffering here or hereafter. (4.) Without any expectation of a future Recompence, or being once pardoned, they should make or give any Satisfaction for what they had done before. And as none