Puritans
Jonathan Edwards on Penal Substitution
Jonathan Edwards from his work Of Satisfaction for Sin:
Justice requires that sin be punished, because sin deserves punishment. What the demerit of sin calls for, justice calls for; for it is only the same thing in different words. For the notion of a desert of punishment, is the very same as a just connexion with [...]
The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners
In his lectures on the theology of Jonathan Edwards, John H. Gerstner states that Edwards did not exaggerate the wrath of God in his sermons, nor could Edwards ever have exaggerated His wrath, pointing out that the sermon titled The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners was considered by Edwards to be the [...]