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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
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.
So that Christ's first work of satisfaction which is terminated as it were on God, is a perfect entire work of it self. And (as Dr. Ames. saith in the place before cited, Anti-Bellarm.) it is to the work of Grace, as Creation is to the work of Nature.
And therefore as none can deny but the Non-Elect have common grace, as Conditional Pardon, Illumination, the Holy Ghost, &c. (else how do they turn grace into wantonness?) so none can well deny but they have it from the general Fountain of Redemption.
Let us then consider what is the proper use of satisfaction as such, and what it was that made satisfaction necessary.
And it is evident that it was the justice of God Creator, as Rector according to the Law of Works, and the misery of Man that ha• offended God by the breach of that Law, and was become liable to the Penalty, which he could not bear without his everlasting undoing These made satisfaction necessary.; God's Justice required that either the Sinner must perish or satisfaction by an Expiatory Sacrifice must b made, by which the remote and main ends the violated Law might be as well attained