A27064:1276
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.
1. In that there is no injustice or other prohibiting inconvenience in it.
2. God doth give the Devils a belief that God is, and that he is a Rewarder of them that seek him diligently, and that Christ is the Son of God, and the Saviour of the World, and that he was Incarnate, dyed for Sin, Rose and Ascended, and sitteth at the right hand of God, and shall come again to judge the World, some to life, and some to death, and that all the Scripture is Gods word, and all true, and that whosoever of Mankind believeth shall be saved, (for the Devil believeth the connection between Faith and Salvation,) all this Faith God giveth to those that look to the nature of things more than to bare words, and can see through the veil of metaphorical expressions, will not make any question of this; especially if they have so far studied the Civil Law and Politics as is requisite for the right understanding of the nature and extent of these two relations. Indeed Christ is called a Father, but that signifieth but
2. God doth give the Devils a belief that God is, and that he is a Rewarder of them that seek him diligently, and that Christ is the Son of God, and the Saviour of the World, and that he was Incarnate, dyed for Sin, Rose and Ascended, and sitteth at the right hand of God, and shall come again to judge the World, some to life, and some to death, and that all the Scripture is Gods word, and all true, and that whosoever of Mankind believeth shall be saved, (for the Devil believeth the connection between Faith and Salvation,) all this Faith God giveth to those that look to the nature of things more than to bare words, and can see through the vail of metaphorical expressions, will not make any question of this; especially if they have so far studied the Civil Law and Politicks as is requisite for the right understanding of the nature and extent of these two relations. Indeed Christ is called a Father, but that signifieth but