A27064:1492
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.
Prop. XXIV. God can if he please pardon and save men for the sake of Christs satisfaction, without letting them once know that Christ satisfied for them, else he cannot save an Infant or an Idiot. Some Divines (as Twice, &c.) are so bold as to say, that God could have pardoned Sin without Christs satisfaction: ⟨p. 478⟩I dare not say so: But methinks the same men should never make mans knowledge or belief of Christs satisfaction, to be absolutely necessary to Salvation, if the satisfaction it self be not: Dare any say, [My own Faith was more necessary than Christs Death? I could have been saved without Christ, but▪ not without Faith.] God could have forgiven men absolutely if he would, or else have made some other condition, when once his Justice was satisfied: And therefore we cannot conclude that this is the condition to any further than Scripture saith so.
Prop. XXIV. God can if he please pardon and save men for the sake of Christs satisfaction, without letting them once know that Christ satisfied for them, else he cannot save an Infant or an Ideot. Some Divines (as Twisse, &c.) are so bold as to say, that God could have pardoned Sin without Christs satisfaction: ⟨p. 478⟩I dare not say so: But methinks the same men should never make mans knowledge or belief of Christs satisfaction, to be absolutely necessary to Salvation, if the satisfaction it self be not: Dare any say, [My own Faith was more necessary than Christs Death? I could have been saved without Christ, but▪ not without Faith.] God could have forgiven men absolutely if he would, or else have made some other condition, when once his Justice was satisfied: And therefore we cannot conclude that this is the condition to any further than Scripture saith so.
Prop. XXV. Yet is Repentance, Belief in God, Love to him, and sincere Obedience, of Natural necessity. For God cannot be enjoyed in Glory but by these Graces; nor as a Just Rector can he save them that love him not, and that Rebel against him.