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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.
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.
2. Bring home the Similitude nearer the case, from payment of money, to suffering of the punishment which they should have suffered, or some other ad fines Rectoris equivalent, and doubtless then he suffered Loco omnium; instead even of those that are dead in Prison, or else he is not a man of his word, if his action answer not his undertaking: But he did not at his actual suffering intend it for the further good of the dead, not in bonum ulterius omnium, supposing ⟨p. 443⟩what good they had before received by it, and might have received a full deliverance if they would; (And to make them willing and reasonable might belong to him in another respect to do if he pleased, but it did not belong to him either as Ransomer or Ruler of them.
Nor did he at the time of his payment intend to them that were before gone out of Prison at his command, any further good by his Ransom than what be gave to the obstinate that dyed, so be it they would accept it.
3. The said Author argued thus; (If Christ dyed instead of all men, and made satisfaction for their sins, then he did it for all their sins, or for some only. If for some only, who then can be saved, &c?