The Doctrine of the Death of Christ [Paperback]

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...we find the two principles perfectly combined in justification by faith. Since the guilty 19 set free, all the pardoning mercy of God finds room to act towards him; but, inasmuch as he is set free by being justified, the act of administering pardon is an administration of justice. When the sinner places his confidence in forgiveness without atonement, he contradicts the strong conviction of his conscience, that sin ought to be punished, and the thought of God's justice must cause him continual dread; but when he trusts to the plan of justification by faith, he may calmly ask, 'Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth'" (Edwards, " Doctrine of Atonement," p. 169, 2nd edit.). Not that we are called upon to believe that the sufferings of Christ were, in all respects, the very penalty which God's law was entitled to demand from the transgressors, but that the death of Christ for sinful men was certainly appointed and accepted by God as a satisfaction of His justice. We are not concerned with any nice and curious inquiries concerning an idem or a tantundem (see Crawford, " Sc. D. of Atonement," pp. 186-192). It should, however, be observed that those who maintain the idem do not mean an idem in all respects. "When I say the same" says Dr. Owen, "I mean essentially the same in weight and pressure, though not the same in all accidents of duration and the like; for it was impossible that He should be detained by death' ("Death of Death," book iii., chap, vii., Works, edit. Goold, vol. x., pp. 269, 270. See also pp. 437-449, and Turretin, " De Satisf.," p. 187. Geneva, 1667). And in a sense thus necessarily limited by the Divine perfections of the Sufferer (beyond, perh...