A27064:1215
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.
3. That it is no injury or injustice to the Damned themselves is as easily manifested: (and yet here is all the show of injury that is.)
3. That it is no injury or injustice to the Damned themselves is as easily manifested: (and yet here is all the shew of injury that is.)
1. It is no wrong to give men their due: But Damnation is the due of all Unbelievers; even those that Christ Died for: Therefore it is no wrong for God to Damn them. The Major is past doubt. The Minor is as clear as any point that I know in the Gospel. A single obligation makes it their due: but here is a double obligation.
1. That of the Law of Works, obliging them to Death as Sinners: which is not dissolved because they accepted not of Pardon in and with Christ: and so they are condemned already: For none is pardoned till he Believeth: and Punishment remaineth due, till men be Pardoned.
2. The obligation of the new Law both binding their former guilt on them by a peremptory irreversible Decree, and condemning them for contempt of recovering Mercy, to a sorer Punishment: This last I mention as belonging only to final Unbelievers. The first obligation lieth on the Elect themselves till they Believe: And moreover the New Law pronounceth them all that time, non-liberatos, unpardoned, and doth not give them any remission; though it pass not on them the peremptory irreversible Sentence.