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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45277	A Christian vindication of truth against errour concerning these controversies, 1. Of sinners prayers, 2. Of priests marriage, 3. Of purgatory, 4. Of the second commandment and images, 5. Of praying to saints and angels, 6. Of justification by faith, 7. Of Christs new testament or covenant / by Edw. Hide ...	Hyde, Edward, 1607-1659.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3864; ESTC R37927	226,933	558

or exactly proportionable to the Justice of the Creator for it self much less for another from its own worthinesse but only from Gods acceptance And that Christ himself as man could not have merited forgivenesse of our sins at the hands of God as having satisfied his offended Justice if God had not been mercifully pleased of his own free grace and goodnesse to accept of his satisfaction Nullius creaturae neque adeò Christi apud Deum esse meritum satisfactionem simpliciter condignam sed ex acceptatione ipsius Dei qui sponte suâ eâ satisfactione merito vol●…it esse contentus Vasques in 3. Thom. Disp. 5. c. 1. So that if the eternal Son of God did by his most condigne and compleat righteousnesse purchase for us forgivenesse of sins and eternal life merito ex compacto non autem absoluto only by compact or covenant not by absolute Justice then what a vain imagination is it to think what an unwarrantable fiction is it to say that one mans righteousness can be meritorious to make another righteous which hath no condignity to challenge acceptance for it self and much less hath any compact or covenant to be accepted for another And if it be not meritorious to exempt him from guilt how can it be satisfactory to exempt him from punishment For satisfaction is an act of Justice but Justice will have the sin expiated before it will have the punishment remitted wherefore though your great Doctor spoke without book surely without Gods book when he said That the least drop of Christs blood was a sufficient satisfaction for the sins of the whole world and consequently that all the other passions of Christ were meerly superfluous as to our redemption from eternal death Bellar. de Jndulg l. 1. c. 4. For this assertion makes God delight in Unnecessaries which even nature abhorres meerly by instinct from him nay it makes him delight in some kind cruelty if not as injustice punishing our blessed Saviour more then was needful for the satisfaction of Justice yet if we should gratify him with the allowance though not the approbation of this unwarrantable asserion it would not do his work by laying a firm foundation of his surposed Treasury of th●… Church built upon the superfluous merits and passions of Christ the blessed Virgin and the other Saints 1. Because the Passions of Christ though they were all infinite in value from the dignity of the sufferer yet were none of them superfluous for the cause and ground of his suffering 2. Because there it is not the same reason of merit in the Saints as was in Christ For even those actions of Christ which proceeded from his humane nature had their merit from his Divine nature as the flesh of Christ is said to give life the obedience of Christ to give righteousness the blood of Christ to have redeemed the Church not in it self but as the flesh and the obedience and the blood of the Son of God The Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood Acts 20. 28. He shed his blood as man but he purchased the Church with it as God Those doings and sufferings of Christ which had their original from his Humanity had their excellency from his Divinity not so the doings and sufferings of the Saints for though they proceeded from the spirit of God yet were they the doings and sufferings only of men not of God because the Spirit of God dwelled in them not by a Personal Union but only by a powerful Communion 3. Because there is not the same reason of the acceptance of the Saints merits as of Christs For Gods promise of accepting the sufferings of his Son for the expiation of our sins is most evident not so of accepting the sufferings of his servants were they more then enough for themselves There is not in all the written word the least contract or Covenant of Gods making That he would accept superfluous merits or sufferings or satisfaction from some when for defects and demerits and dissatisfaction from others Besides what a strange insolency is it for a Divine to deny to Christian souls the Imputation of that part of Christs sufferings which is absolutely necessary both for Gods satisfaction and for their own salvation and at the same time to avow the imputation of that Part of Christs sufferings which he professeth to be superfluous For if necessary sufferings or doings may not how should unnecessary be imputed But above all it is a most abominable insolency to deny the imputation of Christs righteousnesse which is both substantial and satisfactory and to allow the imputation of the Saints righteousnesse which is not substantial as to its supposed superfluity and cannot be satisfactory if it could be superfluous t is not sufficient to justifie them that have it much less them that have it not The blessed Virgin her self did say My soul doth magnifie the Lord and my Spirit hath rejoyced in God my Saviour Ascribing to her God not to her self the honour of her salvation Therefore though she had a vast stock of oile in her Vessel for her own lamp yet I fear if any foolish Virgin which had not so should say unto her Give me of your oyl for my lamp is gone out she would turn the parable into a history and say not so lest there be not enough for me and for you Matth. 25. 9. This answer the Text in effect gives for her as for the wisest of all Virgins and therefore 't is most probable she would give it for her self and if so To let pass other absurdities T is certain you egregiously affront the mother of God in taking away her oile without her consent if you do not egregiously delude the sons of men in saying that her oyl will serve to feed their lamps you may as well say that her good works will serve to nourish and sustain their Faith or that her Faith will serve to purge and save their souls And as for the other Saints they cannot satisfie the Justice of God for themselves and much less for others because there are two impediments of their perfection in righteousnesse and an imperfect righteousness if it could be spared would in vain be communicated The first is the impediment of their Original the second is the impediment of their Actual sin They are both affirmed together by the Holy Ghost Prov. 20 9 Who can say I have made my heart clean sc. from my original corruption I am pure from my sin sc. from my actual transgression He that cleanseth the heart knoweth best how far he hath cleansed it we cannot cleanse our hearts but by his help and assistance if we can let us say no longer Make me a clean heart O God and he owneth no such cleansing in this world but which still leaveth some uncleannesse behind it He that hath made no use of his assistance is not at all concerned in this Interrogatory Who can say I