A27064:1047
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
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Concl. 6. At the same time he disposeth him to the daily receiving of a daily pardon for daily sins, both in that his former sins being all pardoned, his person is Accepted and Adopted, and his Soul habituated to that Faith and Repentance which is the Condition, and possessed of the Spirit, which maintaineth these Graces.
Concl. 7. Yet are not his sins actually pardoned before they are committed.
Concl. 8. Inceptive Remission is actual, and equal to absolute (as to the present possession of it) as soon as men believe; but as to the continuance of it, both Universal and particular Remission, ⟨p. 359⟩are still but Conditional till death, and the Condition of Continuance (as is beforesaid) is more than the Condition of our first obtaining.
Concl. 9. That Men lose not Justification or Remission, therefore comes not from the Nature of the thing, nor the Tenor of the Remitting-Grant, which being Conditional, supposeth ever the possibility of the Non-performance of the Condition: (alas, more than possibility,) but it comes from the good pleasure of God to maintain that Grace in his Elect which he hath given them, so far as to see infallibly that they perform the Condition of continued and renewed Remission and Justification, by causing them to persevere, and overcome, and therefore God as Legislator (in Precepts, Prohibitions, Threats, and Rewarding Promises) doth still deal with all Men as defectible, and supposeth the possibility of their falling away from Grace, and perishing. But God as Eternal Elector, and Determiner of Events by his Decrees, dealeth with all his Elect as Men whom he resolveth infallibly to Save, and whose Apostasy is, though possible, yet non futura, a thing that never shall be; yea, in respect to the power of any Enemy to deceive them by overcoming God's preserving grace; so the deceiving or perverting of them is properly impossible, as well as not future (as Christ himself tells us.)