A brief discourse of justification. Wherein this doctrine is plainly laid down according to…

that although Gods Holiness forbids that he should baulk his Justice, or lose the honour of that so precious an Attribute, yet notwithstanding he can accept of another in exchange for the Sinner; provided he who is received in exchange be of sufficiency to answer what is required, and there be no loss in that respect: and he can receive satisfaction at the hands of a Surety; and when he hath executed his Justice upon him, and taken all the revenges upon him which the Law was to have done upon the principal; now what rational Argument can possibly be alleged, why he may ⟨p. 157⟩not without any the least wound to his Holiness, pass a Pardon upon him, for whom all this hath been done to procure him one? But there needs no disputing here, about the right of the thing, for it tends only to bring us to Atheism, and possess us with such thoughts about God, which carry in them a denying of him to be God, viz. that he is not Holy nor Just, nor True; for it is certain that God hath done all this already, and you may silence all from your own experience, he hath declared it to you, he hath given you the witness of it, as in his Word, so also in your own Soul; and therefore let him vindicate his own name from such imputations, and he both can and will, Thus may a Child of God find the righteousness of Christ to be a refuge from the Tempest.

that although Gods Holiness forbids that he should baulk his Justice, or lose the honour of that so precious an Attribute, yet notwithstanding he can accept of another in exchange for the Sinner; provided he who is received in exchange be of sufficiency to answer what is required, and there be no loss in that respect: and he can receive satisfaction at the hands of a Surety; and when he hath executed his Justice upon him, and taken all the revenges upon him which the Law was to have done upon the principal; now what rational Argument can possibly be alledged, why he may ⟨p. 157⟩not without any the least wound to his Holiness, pass a Pardon upon him, for whom all this hath been done to procure him one? But there needs no disputing here, about the right of the thing, for it tends only to bring us to Atheism, and possess us with such thoughts about God, which carry in them a denying of him to be God, viz. that he is not Holy nor Just, nor True; for it is certain that God hath done all this already, and you may silence all from your own experience, he hath declared it to you, he hath given you the witness of it, as in his Word, so also in your own Soul; and therefore let him vindicate his own name from such imputations, and he both can and will, Thus may a Child of God find the righteousness of Christ to be a refuge from the Tempest.