A27064:1187
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.
2. If this Promise were so to be understood, it were nothing against what I say: And if it do extend to all sufferings as well as those for Christ, yet it is not against it. For it proves no more but that they are chastisements that shall produce a greater good than the suffering is evil. But yet chastisements are punishments, and the evil is still evil though it occasion good: It is evil in it self or directly, it doth us good but by accident. Or whatsoever you conclude of chastisements in suffering, certainly it is a heavy Punishment when God permitteth his People to sin (as he did David, Peter, &c.) yet such as Christ hath Died for do suffer this Punishment. Again, is not Original sin the loss of Gods Image, and the pravity of Nature a Punishment for the first sin? I mean Gods withdrawing his Grace, which is the Antecedent.
Lastly, If all this were nothing as to the Regenerate, yet who ever said that God never punisheth any of his Elect while they are Unregenerate? Are none of their sins Original or Actual, nor any of their sufferings or disunion from Christ and Alienation from God, punishments to them? It is beyond all dispute. I conclude therefore that it is a point of undeniable evidence, that God doth actually punish some, yea all for whom Christ Died; and he doth it justly. And therefore it is not injustice to ⟨p. 404⟩punish men that Christ Died for, (merely as if God could not do it, lest he punish twice for one sin.
Lastly, If all this were nothing as to the Regenerate, yet who ever said that God never punisheth any of his Elect while they are Unregenerate? Are none of their sins Original or Actual, nor any of their sufferings or disunion from Christ and Alienation from God, punishments to them? It is beyond all dispute. I conclude therefore that it is a point of undenyable evidence, that God doth actually punish some, yea all for whom Christ Died; and he doth it justly. And therefore it is not injustice to ⟨p. 404⟩punish men that Christ Died for, (meerly as if God could not do it, lest he punish twice for one sin.