Universal redemption of mankind, by the Lord Jesus Christ stated and cleared by the…

So that you see now that quoad Deum all men are pardoned all their sins (except those excepted in the conditions of the Grant,) though quoad delinquentis Receptionem they are still unpardoned. They may have Christ and Pardon if they will. And when they are deprived of the Gift merely because they will not have it, no Reason can say, God did not give it, or Christ did not procure it, or that God is unjust in that they are without it. So that it is not now merely the obligation of the first Law, as unremedied that binds them over to punishment, nor as it is in the Hands of God as Creator or Rector secundum Legem operum; but it is the Obligation of the new Law primarily (He that believeth not shall not be forgiven nor be saved) ⟨p. 396⟩and consequently of the Old Law, as the obligation is in the Redeemers hands to be charged only on the Rejecters of Grace. It is not primarily for sin as sin, according to this Law; [Whosoever sinneth shall dye,] but it is primarily for Rejecting the Remedy, and then that sin, by necessary consequence remains unpardoned: so that it is not directly because they were guilty of Death by the first Law, but propter rejectam Remissionem for despising the Remission of that guilt. So that quoad Deum it may be called the return of Sin or Guilt Remitted, and so to be more properly ex novd obligatione from the New Obligation of the Law of Christ, binding all their sins again upon them; though as to them and their reception it is both from the New Obligation and the old. And therefore Jude calleth such, twice dead, and plucked up by the Roots. If an hundred Traitors be condemned, and the Prince Ransom them all at a Price, agreeing in the payment of it, that they shall now be all his own, and none of them be delivered for all that, who will not thankfully own him and acknowledge his favour: Here it is just that all the Refusers of Pardon yet perish: And their Death is directly for the refusing of the Remedy, and secondarily from their old crime because they would not have it remedied. So that though Materialiter they lose but one Life, yet it may be said that the Life they now lose, Civiliter is not the same that before they lost; but it is vitam de novo donatam, a Life newly given them, for they were dead in Law, and the King gave them a new Life, Moraliter etsi non ⟨p. 397⟩Naturaliter.

So that you see now that quoad Deum all men are pardoned all their sins (except those excepted in the conditions of the Grant,) though quoad delinquentis Receptionem they are still unpardoned. They may have Christ and Pardon if they will. And when they are deprived of the Gift meerly because they will not have it, no Reason can say, God did not give it, or Christ did not procure it, or that God is unjust in that they are without it. So that it is not now meerly the obligation of the first Law, as unremedied that binds them over to punishment, nor as it is in the Hands of God as Creator or Rector secundum Legem operum; but it is the Obligation of the new Law primarily (He that believeth not shall not be forgiven nor be saved)