A27064:1596
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. Yet still this grants that Christ dyed with a special intent of saving those determinate Persons and them only, tho' they suppose this Intent to be upon a foresight of their own Faith, or Unbelief.
2. I demand whether God could not without wrong to any of his Attributes, have caused those to Believe, whom he foresaw would be Unbelievers, and so having decreed to cause them to believe as well as others, have foreseen that they would Believe. They that dare say, God could not have given any such Unbeliever Grace to Believe (infallibly,) do most audaciously abuse Gods power, goodness, and wisdom.
3. And doth not God do more for Peter, than for Judas, for the Elect than the Reprobate, antecedently to their Faith? all the Arminians are not bold enough to deny it.
4. Arminius himself grants, that after the abuse and rejecting of grace▪ God gives up some, as Pharaoh, Ahab &c. to fill up the measure of their sin, and penally forsakes them; and I think they will grant that some others as bad are not so forsaken nor given up, but Converted, as Manasseh.