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A53669 A brief declaration and vindication of the doctrine of the Trinity as also of the person and satisfaction of Christ / accommodated to the capacity and use of such as may be in danger to be seduced, and the establishment of the truth by J. Owen. Owen, John, 1616-1683. 1669 (1669) Wing O718; ESTC R30760 85,616 276

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are really so from whence they receive their denomination that it is meet it should be wholly in the power of these persons to declare But 2. What should hinder the death of Christ to be a Sacrifice a proper Sacrifice and according to the nature end and use of Sacrifices to have made Attonement and Satisfaction for sin 1. It is expresly called so in the Scripture wherein he is said to offer himself to make his soul an offering to offer himself a Sacrifice Eph. 5. 2. Heb. 1. 3. Heb. 9. 14 25. 26. Chap. 7. 27. And he is himself directly said to be a Priest or a Sacrificer Heb. 2. 18. And it is no where intimated much less expressed that these things are not spoken properly but Metaphorically only 2. The Legal Sacrifices of the Old Law were instituted on purpose to represent and prepare the way for the bringing in of the Sacrifice of the L●mb of God so to take away the sin of the World And is it not strange that true and real Sacrifices should be Types and R presentations of that which was not so On this supposition all those Sacrifices are but so many seductions from the right understanding of things between God and sinners 3. Nothing is wanting to render it a proper propitiatory Sacrifice for 1. There was the person offering and that was Christ himself Heb. 9. 14. He offered himself unto God He that is the Sacrificer denotes the person of Christ God and Man and Himself as the Sacrifice denotes his Humane Nature whence God is said to purchase his Church with his own blood Act. 20. 28. For he offered himself through the Eternal Spirit so that 2. There was the Matter of the Sacrifice which was the Humane Nature of Christ soul and body His soul was made an offering for Sin Isa. 53. 10 And his body the offering of the body of Jesus Christ Hob. 10 11. His blood especially which is often Synecdochically mentioned for the whole 4. His death had the nature of a Sacrifice For 1. Therein were the sins of men laid upon him and not in his entrance into Heaven for he bare our sins in his own body on the tree 1 Pet. 2. 23. God made our sins then to meet upon him Isa. 53. 6. Which gives the formality unto any Sacrifices Quod in ejus Caput sit is the formal reason of all Propitiatory Sacrifices and ever was so as is expresly declared Lev. 16. 21 22. And the phrase of bearing sin of bearing iniquity is constantly used for the undergoing of the punishment due to sin 2. It had the End of a proper Sacrifice it made expiation of sin propitiation and attonement for sin with reconciliation with God and so took away that enmity that was between God and sinners Heb. 1. 3. Rom. 3. 25 26. Heb. 2. 17 18. Heb. 5. 10. Rom. 8. 3. 2 Cor. 5. 18 19. And although God himself pesigned appointed and contrived in Wisdom this way of Reconciliation as he did the means for the attoning of his own Anger towards the friends of Job commanding them to go unto him and with him offer Sacrifices for themselves which he would accept Chap. 4. 28. Yet as He was the Supream Governour the Lord of all attended with Infinite Justice and Holiness Attonement was made with him and satisfaction to him thereby What hath been spoken may suffice to discover the emptiness and weakness of those exceptions which in general these men make against the Truth before laid down from the Scripture A brief examination of some particular instances wherein they seek not so much to oppose as to reproach the Revelation of this Mysterie of the Gospel shall put a close to this discourse It is said then 1. That if this be so then it will follow that God is gracious to Forgive and yet impossible for him unless the debt be fully satisfied Answ. I suppose the confused and abrupt expression of things here in words scarcely affording a tolerable sense is rather from weakness than captiousness and so I shall let the manner of the proposal pass 2. What is this should follow that God is gracious to forgive sinners and yet will not cannot on the account of his own Holiness and Righteousness actually forgive any without Satisfaction and Attonement made for sin the worst that can be hence concluded is that the Scripture is true which affirms both these in many places 3. This sets out the exceeding greatness of the Grace of God in forgiveness that when sin could not be forgiven without satisfaction and the sinner himself could no way make any such satisfaction that he provided himself a Sacrifice of Attonement that the sinner might be discharged and pardoned 4. Sin is not properly a debt for then it might be paid in kind by sin it self but is called so only because it binds over the sinner to punishment which is the satisfaction to be made for that which is properly a Transgression and improperly only a debt It is added 2. Hence it follows that the finite and impotent creature is more capable of extending Mercy and Forgiveness than the Infinite and Omnipotent Creator Answ. God being Essentially Holy and Righteous having ingaged his faithfulness in the sanction of the Law and being naturally and necessarily the Governour and Ruler of the World the Forgiving of sin without satisfaction would be no perfection in him but an effect of impotency and imperfection a thing which God cannot do as he cannot lye nor deny himself 2. The direct contrary of what is insinuated is asserted by this Doctrine for on the supposition of the Satisfaction and Attonement insisted on not only doth God freely forgive but that in such a way of Righteousness and Goodness as no Creature is able to conceive or express the glory and excellency of it And to speak of the poor halving pardons of private Men upon particular offences against themselves who are commanded so to do and have no right nor authority to require or exact punishment nor is any due upon the meer account of their own concernment in comparison with the forgiveness of God ariseth out of a deep ignorance of the whole matter under consideration 3. It is added by them that hence it follows that God so loved the World he gave his only Son to save it and yet that God stood off in high displeasure and Christ gave himself as a compleat satisfaction to offended Justice Answ. 1. Something these Men would say if they knew what or how for 1. That God so loved the World as to give his only Son to save it is the expression of the Scripture and the foundation of the Doctrine whose truth we contend for That Christ offered himself to make Attonement for sinners and therein made satisfaction to the Justice of God is the Doctrine it self which these Men oppose and not any consequent of it 3. That God stood off in high displeasure is an expression which neither the Scripture useth