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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 4: Argument 4. Against Universal Satisfaction.
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Our Divines say, God Created Man to Life and Happiness, so be it he would obey; and undoubtedly he Created him in a state of happiness, and put him in a way to obtain either the enjoyment of a greater, or at least the perpetuation of that which he did enjoy, and made him an implicit promise of it.
Our Divines say, God Created Man to Life and Happiness, so be it he would obey; and undoubtedly he Created him in a state of happiness, and put him in a way to obtain either the enjoyment of a greater, or at least the perpetuation of that which he did enjoy, and made him an implicite promise of it.
Now shall any man say, that because God foreknew or decreed that Adam would sin, and never obtain that life to which he was so Created, or which was so promised him, that therefore God made him capable of it in vain, or promised it in vain, or prescribed him means to the attainment of it in vain? (for his attaining Life after by Christ, is nothing against his losing it in the first way?) Most certainly those that see not the glory of Christs new Administration in the Government of the World in general, (in Title, and so legislation, judgment, and execution) as it differs from the Administration of the former Government, they do rob God of a very great part of the glory of the work of Redemption; and if they overlook so glorious an effect of this work (which should be part of the matter of their weekly solemn Praises on the Lords days in the Church Assemblies, for which the day was translated from the seventh, which was for the commemoration of the Creation, as the cause of our being, and ground of the former Government) no wonder ⟨p. 448⟩if they speak and write again Universal Redemption.
The whole World is now governed by Christ, and so by God, as he is God Redeemer. And it is no small flaw or error in their Theology, that deny the Foundation of the whole Government, and then cry out, that we make Christ to dye in vain, if he bring not all infallibly to Heaven that he dyed for.