Universal redemption of mankind, by the Lord Jesus Christ stated and cleared by the…

Perhaps some will object, that the same may be said of Pardon and Salvation, that there needs no new suffering to merit them, if once Justice be satisfied, and yet Christ dyed for our Justification, and Salvation.

To which I answer, All this is true, but then observe the difference; separate in your thoughts Remission, Justification, and Salvation on one side, from Faith in Christ on the other side, (as we by supposition may well do in disputation;) and you will find that God could not give Remission, Justification, and Salvation from Punishment without Christ's satisfaction; but he could have given Faith in Christ (if you will suppose it to go alone without the former benefits) without satisfaction, I say, he could not give the former; not by reason of any impotency or imperfection in God, but by reason of the perfection of his Wisdom, Justice, and Holiness.

For them that deny this (as Twice, and some others do, to the great hardening of Socinians, and Infidels) at present I refer them to the Writings of Divines that have proved it: As Voetius in Thesibus, Camero Passim; specially excellent ⟨p. 421⟩well by Mos. Amyraldus in Thesib. Salm•riens. Vol. 1. de satisfactione: and Essenius, Joh. Junius, and most against the Socinians on that point, say somewhat to it, and something I have elsewhere said my self, and therefore will not now so far digress.

For them that deny this (as Twisse, and some others do, to the great hardning of Socinians, and Infidels) at present I refer them to the Writings of Divines that have proved it: As Voetius in Thesibus, Camero Passim; specially excellent ⟨p. 421⟩