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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
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.
Answ. I. If that were true of God's Moral Civil way of giving, yet it cannot be true of his Physical gift or operation which we now speak ⟨p. 487⟩of: for that giving is ever connected with receiving: As God never giveth a Soul to any Body, nor health to any Sick man, but those that receive them, so he never thus gives Faith, Repentance, a New-heart, to any but those that receive them.
Answ. I. If that were true of God's Moral Civil way of giving, yet it cannot be true of his Physical gift or operation which we now speak ⟨p. 487⟩of: for that giving is ever connexed with receiving: As God never giveth a Soul to any Body, nor health to any Sick man, but those that receive them, so he never thus gives Faith, Repentance, a New-heart, to any but those that receive them.
Obj. He offereth Christ and Grace to believe in him to All: and offering is conditional giving: and he doth no more to any, but on supposition of their Reception, or performance of the Condition.
Answ. I. It's false, that he actually offers Christ to all, tho' as to the tenor of the Gift he doth, which without the Promulgation (which extends not to Millions of Heathens) is no actual offer.
Answ. I. It's false, that he actually offers Christ to all, tho' as to the tenour of the Gift he doth, which without the Promulgation (which extends not to Millions of Heathens) is no actual offer.