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Universal redemption of mankind, by the Lord Jesus Christ stated and cleared by the…
Universal redemption of mankind, by the Lord Jesus Christ stated and cleared by the late learned Mr. Richard Barter [sic] ; whereunto is added a short account of Special redemption, by the same author.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1694
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Let us therefore First distinguish of Punishment that we may the better distinguish of Remission. And before that let us define Punishment.
Punishment Actually taken, Punitio, is. The Action of a Governor depriving an Inferior of some natural good, because of some fault by him committed (or because of some Moral Evil.)
Punishment Actually taken, Punitio, is. The Action of a Governour depriving an Inferiour of some natural good, because of some fault by him committed (or because of some Moral Evil.)
Punishment Passively taken, Poena is a privation of some natural good, Inflicted for the desert of some Moral Evil.
Punishment Passively taken, Poena is a privavation of some natural good, Inflicted for the desert of some Moral Evil.
The Matter of Punishment is Natural Evil: and therefore the first thing intended by the Inflicter is, ut noceat patienti; that it may hurt the Sufferer, and so may have the Matter of Punishment. The form, is its Relation to a fault, viz. that it be [because of some Moral Evil:] The end is [the demonstration of Justice] this end enters the definition of Punishment in General, and is common to all Punishment. The other ends proper to each Species, are to be fetched from the definition of that Species.