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Show !158 1668. v-v-v The Sandy Foundation Shaken. VoL. I. NotPMa,. 6. The Ju!\ice offended being Infinite, his Satisfaction ough~ to bear a Proportion therewith, which Jefus Chnfi, as Man, cou~d n~\et pay, he being Finite, and from a finite Caufe, could not pro.ceed an mfintte ~fl~~; for to Man may be faid to bring forth God, fince nothtng below the Dtvtnay it felf, can 1ightly be !\iled Infinite. Not as God and Man. 1 For where rwo Mediums, or Middle Propofitions, are lingly incon6f ten; with the Nature of the End, for which they were at fi1.1t propou nd~d, their Conjunaion does r~rher aug~ent, then leffen rh.e Dtfficufry of Its Accomplifhment; and thts I am peri wade<! muft be obvtous to every unby .. as'd Underftanding. . . But admitting one of thefe three Medturns poffible for th~ ~ayment of an infinite Debt; yet, pray ob~erve the moft unworthy! _and ndtcul,ous con· fequences, that unavoiJablJ wtl~ attend the Impoffibtltty of Gods Pardoning Sinners without a SausfaEhon. Conj<q«tnces Irreligiotu and Irrational. 1. That it's Unlawful and Impoffible fot "God Almighty to be Gracious and Merciful, or to Pardon Tranfgreffor~; than which, what's more Un· worthy of God. 2. Th::tt God was inevitably compell'd to this Way of Saving Men ; 'he higheft Affront to His incontroulable Nature. 3· That it was unworthy of God to Pardon, but not to in Rift Punifhment on the Innocent, or require a SatisfaB:ion where th:re was nothing due. 4- It doth not only dif-ac~no~ledge t~e True Vtrtue and Re_al lnt:nr~f Chrifl's Life and Death, but mttrely depnves God of that Pratfe whtch IS owing to His greatefl: Love and Goodnefs. S· It repreients the Son more Kind an~ Compaffionate. than th~ Father; whereas if both be the :P.lme God, then en her the Father IS as Lovmg as the Son, or the Son as Angry as the Fa~her. . . 6. It robs God of the Gift of Hts Son for our Redemption (whoch the Scriptures attribute to the Unmerited Love he had for the World) in affirmmg the Son purchas'd that Redcmt>tion _from the Father, hy the Gift of himfelfto God, as our compleat SJusfaB:ton. 7· Since Chrift could not pay what was not his own, it follows that in the Payment of his own, , the Cafe ftill remains equally grievous; fince the Debt is not hereby abfolv'd or forgiven, but transfer'd only; and by Confc~ quence we are no better provided for Salvation than before, owing that now to the Son, which was once owing to the Father. 8. It no Way renders Man beholding, or in the leaft oblig'd to' God, fince by their Doll:rine he would not have abated us, nor did he Chrift rhe Iaft Farthing, fo that the Acknowledgments are peculiarly the Son's ; which deftroys the whole Current of Sctipture-Teftimony, for his Good Will rcr wards Men. - 0 the infamous Portraiture this Dothine draws, of the Infinite Goodnefs: Is this your Retribution, 0 lni11rio11J Satis[aOi011ijlr? 9· That God's Jultice is iltisfied for Sins paft, prefenr, and to ¢Orne, whereby God and Chrift have loft both their Power of enjoyning Godlinefs, and Prerogative of punilhing Difobedicnce; for what is once paid, is not revokeable; and if Punifhmcnt fhould arreft any for their Debts, it either argues a Breach on God, or Chrift's Parr, or eiiE: that it has not been fuf· ficienrly folv'd, and the Penalty compleatly fuftain'd by another; forget· R.om.t4o 12. ring, That every one mufl appe(tr before the ]Ndgment Se11t of Chrifl, to-re~ ceive accprding to the Tbingr done in tbe Bo.ly : Yea, Every one. I»Nft give tt11 2 COr.ts.to. Account of him [elf to God. But many more are the grofs Abfurdities and Blafphemies that are the Genuine Fruits of this fo confidently believed. Do£!rine of Sntirfa{/ion. ' A CaM· Vor.. I. The Sandy Foundation Sbake•i. 1668. A CAUTION. ~ Let me advife, nay warn thee, Rearler, by no Means to admi~ an Enter-1 t:linmenc of this Principle, by whomfoever recommended; fince It does not only diveit the Glorious God of His Sovereign Power, both to P:trdon and Punifh but as ct!rtJinly infinuates a Licenrioufnefs, at leafl: a Libeny that unbecdmes the Nature of that Ancient Gofpel once preached among t~o Primitive Saints, and that from an Apprehenfion of a SatisfaCtion once patd for all. Whereas I muft tell thee, That unlefs thou ferioufly repent, ::md no more Grieve God's H~!J Spirit, placed in thy in molt P~Hts, but art thereby taught ro deny all UngodlinefS, and led inro_all ~ighteoufnefs; at ~he Tribunal of tbc Great Judge, thy Plea !hall prove mvalld, and thou r:ce1ve thy Reward without RefpeB: to any other Thing than the Deeds done m rhe Body: Be not deceived, God will not he mocked; fucb (If tbou Sotcr/1, fN_cb Gal. 6J7; flair thou Reap, which leads me to the Confideration of my third 1-fead, v1=. Jujlification by an Imputative Rightcoufnefr. Th< Ju!Hfication of impure Perfons, by an imputati"Ve Righteoufnefs, refuted from Scripture. T HAT there is no other Way /or Sinncrr to 6c Juflified in the Sight of Doflrln~) God, than by the l!npNtation of that Righteoufnefs of CHRIST, long fince performed PerfonaUy ; and that SanEHfication U COJtftquenti(li, not lintecedent. t. Ketp thee far from a /oife lt!atter; ami t!Je Innocent and Rigbteout Ex. 21· ;~; flay thou not ; for I wiU not jujlifie the Wicked. Whereon I ground this Argu· ment, That fince God has prefcribed an inoffenfive Life, as that which c-.n only give Acceptance with him, and on the contrary hath determined ne\•ef to jufiifie the \1\'icked, ther. will it neceff.:uily follow, that unlefs this fo much believ'd Imputative Rigbuoufnefs, had that effectual Influence, as. ro regenerate ar.d redeem the Soul from Sin, on which the MalediCtion lles, he is as far to feek for Jufiification as before; for whilfla Perfon is really guilty of a falfe Matter, I pofitively a!fert from the Authority and Force of this Scripture, he cannot be in a State of Juftificarion; and as God will not juftifie the Wicked, fa by the acknowledg'd Reafon of Contraries, the Juft he will never Condemn, but They, and They only, are the Jujliji<d ofGod. • 2. He that Jujlifteth the Wicked, and be that Ccndemnetb the Ju£1, 'even Prov.11. 1s. they both are an Abomination to the Lord. [It would very opportunely be ' obferv'd, that if it's fo great an Abomination in Men to juftifie the Wicked, and Condemn the Juft, how much greater would it be in God, which rhis• Doctrine of Imputative Rigbreoufnef.r neceifarily does imply, that fo far difengages God from the Perfon Juftified, as that his Guilr fhall not Condemn him, nor his Innocency Juftific him? But will not the AbomiilJtion :tppear greateft of all, when God fhall be found Condemning of the Juft, on Pur-pofe to Jufiifie the '¥icked, and that He is thereto compell'd, or elfc no Salvation, which is the Tenden~y of their DoCl:rine, Wbo imagine tbe Righteour and Merciful God, to Condemn and Punifh Hi.r Innocent Son, tiNt He having JatU.fied for our Situ, we might he ]11jlijied (whilft UnfanElified) h1rhe lll1putation of Hit P~rfeO Rigbteoufnrf.r. 0! Why fhould this Hor· nble Thing be contended for by Chriftians? 3· The Son jhall not bear the Iniq11ity of his Futber; the Ritbteoufncfr of Ez~k. II. 20, t~e Rigbteour jhall be upon him, and the WickeJnefr of the Wick~d jlMlf be upo_n 26' 1:7, 2¥. hmt. When a Rigbteour MmttNrnetb away from 1n"s Rigbrroufnift, for bu Iniquity tb:rt be barlJ done jha/1 be die. Again, Wbrn the Wicked 1H11~ t11rr. ... eJbaroay from his Wickednefs, an.l doth tb.1t wbicTJ ir Larx[1.1l nnd R1gbr, be foa1J ]ave bit So11l alive; yet fairh the Houfe 0f lfrael, The Way; of rbe Lor.l are not equal: lire not my Wayr /'."'qual? If this was once Equ1l, ir's fa !till, L I 2 for * |