A27064:1418
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. For his New Law, Testament, Gospel Promise, or Conditional Gift of Pardon and Life: (call it what you will.) By this he commands men to Repent and Believe, and giveth them his foresaid Benefits on condition they perform this: laying a kind of engagement or obligation upon himself, which he cannot break; For God cannot lye: and shall not the Judge of all the Earth do Righteously? How else should God judge the World? And God in the relation of a Righteous Judge will give the Crown of Righteousness at that day to all them that love his appearing. ⟨p. 457⟩Now I conceive that in a full proper sense, none that hear not the Gospel (i. e. that have not some Revelation of Christ Crucified) are in this Covenant, nor God in Covenant thus with them: For the Preceptive part of the New Law doth not actually oblige them to the performance of the full condition (of Believing in Jesus Christ Crucified;) nor doth the promissory part oblige Christ to give them the benefit in so full a sense as to those that have this Covenant revealed to them; nor can Christ be said conditionally to give it them, in so full a sense; because the Law or Deed of Gift is not Promulgate fully to them, as it is to others. I shall open this more in the following conclusions.
1. For his New Law, Testament, Gospel Promise, or Conditional Gift of Pardon and Life: (call it what you will.) By this he commands men to Repent and Believe, and giveth them his foresaid Benefits on condition they perform this: laying a kind of engagement or obligation upon himself, which he cannot break; For God cannot lye: and shall not the Judge of all the Earth do Righteously? How else should God judge the World? And God in the relation of a Righteous Judge will give the Crown of Righteousness at that day to all them that love his appearing. ⟨p. 457⟩Now I conceive that in a full proper sense, none that hear not the Gospel (i. e. that have not some Revelation of Christ Crucified) are in this Covenant, nor God in Covenant thus with them: For the Preceptive part of the New Law doth not actually oblige them to the performance of the full condition (of Believing in Jesus Christ Crucified;) nor doth the promisory part oblige Christ to give them the benefit in so full a sense as to those that have this Covenant revealed to them; nor can Christ be said conditionally to give it them, in so full a sense; because the Law or Deed of Gift is not Promulgate fully to them, as it is to others. I shall open this more in the following conclusions.