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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.
How Christ doth give out this Pardon we shall show you anon, de quadruplici Remissione, so that it is apparent that the want of the act or habit of Faith, or the want of the Holy Ghost to effect Faith, is not the thing that required satisfaction to God's Justice directly; but that Faith is only a remote effect of this satisfaction, and such an effect as hath no such Natural Connection with this Cause, but that the Cause (materially) may be and oft is without that effect in many; and the effect might have been without that cause from another, if God had so pleased.
How Christ doth give out this Pardon we shall shew you anon, de quadruplici Remissione, so that it is apparent that the want of the act or habit of Faith, or the want of the Holy Ghost to effect Faith, is not the thing that required satisfaction to God's Justice directly; but that Faith is only a remote effect of this satisfaction, and such an effect as hath no such Natural Connection with this Cause, but that the Cause (materially) may be and oft is without that effect in many; and the effect might have been without that cause from another, if God had so pleased.
To manifest this (that it is not want of Faith that required satisfaction as such; and that satisfaction may be made for those that shall never believe) observe these things.
1. That Man's Suffering is not a thing pleasing to God in and for it self, but for its end, viz. The Demonstration of Justice and Right Governing of the World. God professeth that he hath no pleasure in the death of a Sinner, Ezek. 18. nor in the death of him that dyeth, Ezek. 33. but rather that he repent and live. Much less hath he pleasure in the death of the innocent, and least of all in the death of his own Son. God is not blood-thirsty, who abhorreth the blood-thirsty man.