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SCRIPTURE AND THE FATIITRS. 315
positions tend to annihilate divine justice entirely.
A double atonement is more than equity
requires, and two incomplete satisfactions less
for a law can never declare any thing righteousness,
which does not perfectly answer its demands.
The scriptural doctrine of the atonement,
also, illustrates the absurdity of both
these views : " He bare our sins in his own
" body upon the tree *." " He has redeemed
*'
us from the curse of the law, being made a
" curse for us t *•" And consequently, " There
*'
is
no condemnation to them who are in Christ
" Jesus +." Will the R. then show, how justice
can require ^ome pains of persons who are
not under its sentence of condemnation In the
economy of grace, the Christian feels the influence
of divine justice, only as it operates
for the accomplishment of the promises of the
gospel.
Should the R. refer to the afflictions of the
Christian life as a proof that justice requires seme
pains, he has yet a great deal to learn concerning
both the source and design of this part of the divine
dispensations.
Afflictions, to a sinner, proceed
from justice exacting a penalty for broken
law^s ; but to the Christian, they originate in love ;
for
" whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and
" scourgeth every son whom he receiveth ||."
In
* 2 Pet. il. 24. f
Gal, iii. 13. :j: Rora.vlii. i,
II
Htb. xii. 6,.