Thread by @ronhenzel

1) Should Calvin have checked with these guys before writing this?:

"He offered as a sacrifice the flesh he received from us, that he might wipe out our guilt by his act of expiation and appease the 𝑭𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓’𝒔 righteous wrath."

—Institutes 2.12.3

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2) Please don't try to retweet this in their threads. Denhollander & I have mutual blocks & I blocked Howard long ago. If you must, give them screenshots. I don't want to interact with them.

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3) More from Calvin:

"...He has borne the punishment to acquit us; He has made us clean by His blood; He has appeased the wrath of the 𝑭𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 by His own obedience..."

—Acts of the Apostles, comment on 20:21, in Torrance & Torrance, eds., Calvin's NT Commentaries, 7:177.

4) And:

"This high priest was Christ; he poured out his own blood; he himself was the sacrificial victim; he offered himself, obedient unto death, 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑭𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓. By his obedience he canceled the disobedience of man which had aroused God’s wrath."

Institutes 4.16.21

5)

"Article 21: The Atonement
We believe that Jesus Christ...presented himself
in our name before his Father, 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝑭𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓’𝒔 𝒘𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒉 with full satisfaction by offering himself..."

—Belgic Confession (1561)

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6)

"...we perceive that by true faith Christ, the Son of God, is altogether ours; that he hath 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑭𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 in our behalf...

—Heinrich Bullinger (1504-1575), Decades 1.6

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7)

"He [Christ] suffered in his soul as well as in his body ; and the sufferings of his soul were the very soul of his sufferings. It was 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑭𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝒘𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒉 that lay so heavy on him..."

—John Flavel (c. 1627-1691), "Preparations for Sufferings," Works 6:78.

8)

"Christ prayed for souls, he sweat for souls, he wept for souls, he bled for souls, he hung on the cross for souls, he trode the wine-press of his 𝑭𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝒘𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒉 for souls..."

—Thomas Brooks (1608-1680), "Apples of Gold," Works, 1:216.

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9)

"...In him concenter'd at his death
His Father's love, his 𝑭𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝒘𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒉..."

—Ralph Erskine (1685-1752), "The Riddle," Gospel Sonnets, 24th ed. (1793), 124.

The footnote to "his Father's wrath" cites Isa. 53:10.

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10)

"Jesus Christ went into the furnace of his 𝑭𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝒘𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒉; and those that believe in him, the smell of the fire of hell shall never pass upon them."

—Thomas Watson (1620-1686), "What Sin Deserveth," A Body of Practical Divinity, (1833), 349.

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11)

"...as he represented our sinful persons, he [Christ] felt the strokes of his 𝑭𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝒘𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒉."

—Stephen Charnock (1628-1680), Works, (1815) 7:298.

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12)

"...when he [Christ] lay under the imputation of our sins, and cried out under a sense of his 𝑭𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝒘𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒉..."

—Stephen Charnock (1628-1680), Works, (1815) 7:489.

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13)

"...and surely after he [Christ] had vanquished his 𝑭𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝒘𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒉 and triumphed over the enemies of his honour..."

—Stephen Charnock (1628-1680), Works, (1815) 7:525.

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14)

"...the sense of the 𝑭𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝒘𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒉 in his soul, wrung from him that doleful outcry, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!'"

—James Colquhoun, cited by Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892), A Treasury of David, 4:143.

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