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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
OF Universal Redemption. › Chapter 8 › Argument 3: Argument 3. Against Universal Satisfaction.
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2. By that Natural Suffering which he had before undertaken, and this was in the fullness of time.
2. By that Natural Suffering which he had before undertaken, and this was in the fulness of time.
It is usual for moral effects to go before the natural part of the Cause, but the Cause is in esse morali, in moral being. Many a man upon his word to pay so much money such a day, or upon earnest given, hath the thing bought delivered to him, tho' he pay not the price till long after: So may a man redeem Slaves by such an undertaking. So did Christ undertake to bear the punishment due to the Sins of all; and this undertaking satisfied God, not without his suffering, but by its respect to his future suffering, giving it a moral Being before hand; so that when Christs satisfaction was in its first moral being, no man (of this World) was in Heaven, or in Hell.
2. It was necessary, for Christ having undertaken to suffer the punishment due to their sins, before they were Condemned to perform his undertaking after they are Condemned.