A27064:1168
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.
The Major is proved beyond all doubt from the formal Nature of Pardon, which is the Remitting of Guilt, or the Dissolving of an Obligation to punishment; therefore where is no such obligation there can be no Dissolution of it: For that which is not, cannot be dissolved: And so there is no capacity for pardon; no more than a living man can be raised from the Dead, or a Man cured of a Disease, which he never had. The like may be said of Justification also. Our Divines have fully proved ⟨p. 400⟩against the Antinomians, that we are unpardoned, and unjustified till we believe: We are Justified by Faith, and therefore were unjustified before Faith.
6. If none be obliged to punishment for whom. Christ Died, then none such may pray for Pardon, nor confess that they need any Pardon from Christ. (For Pardon being the dissolving of an obligation to punishment, there can be no pardon, where there is no obligation; and therefore no need of it, nor of prayer for it) But the consequent is very wicked: We must daily pray, Forgive us our Debts and Trespasses: Ergo, &c.
The Second Argument is this, If God do actually punish those for whom Christ Died, then he may justly punish them. But God doth actually punish such: Ergo, &c.