The Anti-Satisfactionist: Or, the Salvation of Sinners by the Free Grace of God : Being an Attempt to Explode the Protestant, as Well as Popish, ... Christian Doctrine of the Sufficiency of Divi

Author:Richard Wright [Wright, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion & Spirituality, Religious Studies, Humanities
Amazon: B009J457SS
Publisher: Ulan Press
Published: 2012-08-30T00:00:00+00:00

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him from the gallows. Truly, Sir, it does not sur*-prise me that you can find no apposite similes to illustrate a doctrine which is contrary to reason and natural fitAess. " '

The argument which! founded upon 1 Pet. i, 18, 21. You say, ' perhaps cannot be better answered than by quoting that passage :'* yet, Sir, that pas-sage contains not the least hint of God's having re*-ceived an equivalent as ^ the price of redemption.' Have not you mistaken the nature of redemption ? ' You seem to think it means God's giving us up to Christ, for a certain price, that he might have an ^opportunity of saving us ; but if you re-examine^ you may find that, throughout the scriptures, it jpeans the actual deliverance of those who are said to he redeemed, from that to which they were in bondage. You will not say that sinners were in bondage to God, or that Christ redeemed them from God ; yet this is what your argument requires. The abovjC passage expresses that it was with the blood of Christ those who believed had been delivered; but it must mean from their former state, not from the liand of G od. If ^ the foundation of a sinner's hope

-. lies upon an equivalent which God hath received at l3ie;hands of their substitute,' which is what you ^j^htend for, is it not evident, that thefoundation of

' mfpefor sinners is something out of and distinct from G^ (in equivalent which he is supposed to have receixf" fdllAt the hands of their substitute ? This, nSir, is my argument; |pd, I think, you have unintentionally

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granted it. The Apostle is not charged with any contradiction, by the admission of my argument; for he says nothing about God's receiving an equi^ valent for our salvation, and what he says excludes the idea. It is not just for you to charge the conr tradiction involved in your system upon the Apostle^ , by taking for granted that your creed is mado^ from jbis writings.

• In defending your system against the argument which I founded qn our Lords parable of the credit-jtor and debtors, you have abandoned the groun4 ivhich you formerly chose, and adopted a njcw modfi of eluding its force. * You suppose that * in a parar ble borrowed from a mere pecuniary transaction/ \K ^ would have been improper to introduce any thing about satisfaction : yet you are constrained to admit that this parable ' admirably illustrates the readiness of God to forgive sinners j' but, if §o, he forgive* them freely without receiving any equivalent \ for the parable represents the creditor as forgiving his debtors freely without receiving any payment. J think. Sir, your admission establisjies my argument. As to repentance not being introduced,* yoiii have jadmitted that the construction of the parable precluded the mention of it j you haye, consequently, fcr moved the difficulty which you raised respecting it^

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