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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
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2. Else God would not make it the matter of a threatening to correct them or smite them no more (that is in that sort) because they revolt more and more, which yet he doth, Ergo, &c.
2. Else God would not make it the matter of a threatning to correct them or smite them no more (that is in that sort) because they revolt more and more, which yet he doth, Ergo, &c.
2. Punishment being the Action of a Rector as such, and not of Dominus Absolutus, an Owner as such, (and so not formally and directly the ⟨p. 365⟩act of God, as determining of events by his secret Decrees,) therefore they are to be specified and denominated from Rectoral ends, (which I call the ends of God's Legislative Will) rather than from the ends of God's Secret Decrees de rerum eventu.
Concl. 16. Hence it follows, that God may and doth remit much Temporal Punishment (both destructive and corrective,) even to the unregenerate (both Elect, and Non-Elect) taking an easier way to give the same mercy, which else he might have given in a sharper way; and so far he may be said to remit or forgive their sins: Though yet the Destructive Eternal Punishment being not forgiven, it is not fit in ordinary Speech to say, that such mens Sins are forgiven, without a limiting restrictive explication, because they are forgiven only secundum quid, and in the weakest Sense.