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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
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10. That • careful seeking, and diligent obedience they should continue to the death, against all Temptations to the contrary.
All these Truths may those come to know, by the use of Reason, from the Creatures, and Providences, and specially their own experiences, who never heard of Christ or Scripture. And how much Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, Plotinus, Seneca, Cicero, Plutarch, &c. did know, may partly be seen in the Monuments of their Knowledge.
Prop. IX. All this Revelation is some part of the Law of Jesus Christ, and so these Truths are discovered, and this light sent by him as the Lord Redeemer of the World, or as Rector upon his Redemption Title. For all things being now delivered into his hands, and the whole ⟨p. 466⟩frame of Government being laid on his shoulders, and built on his Redemption, even on Christ the head Corner Stone; the very moral Law now is his Law, and its obligation to obedience is his obligation; yea, the very Law of Works obligeth to punishment now, not as it was at first given, and remaineth in the hands of an offended unsatisfied Creator, but as it is suspended and delivered up into the hands of the Satisfier or Redeemer, to remit wholly, or execute only, conditionally, as men shall receive or reject the grace of Redemption; so that as God ruleth among those blindest of Heathens that yet know him not, so doth Christ Rule among them that know not him.