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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.
Prop. XLIII. Nor doth that promise or Covenant which God hath made, of giving a new and soft Heart to the Elect, give any Man an actual Right to Remission, Justification or Glory: No nor to renewing Grace: it being but a prediction what God resolveth to do for the saving of some, known only to himself and so a discovery of his purpose, and not a conferring of Right. Or if it were a Promissum vel Donatio in diem, sine conditione, as some would make it, yet it would not give actual Title till the time come: Non da••r actio ante diem in talibus promissis inter homines. It is the nature of such gifts that upon (the Donors will) the Right should be as it were in passing from the Donor to the receiver till that day Et si cessit dies, saltem non venit. It is ⟨p. 59⟩not ours in Title till the Day. But indeed here is no prefixed day, nor proper Gift.
Prop. XLIII. Nor doth that promise or Covenant which God hath made, of giving a new and soft Heart to the Elect, give any Man an actual Right to Remission, Justification or Glory: No nor to renewing Grace: it being but a prediction what God resolveth to do for the saving of some, known only to himself and so a discovery of his purpose, and not a conferring of Right. Or if it were a Promissum vel Donatio in diem, sine conditione, as some would make it, yet it would not give actual Title till the time come: Non da••r actio ante diem in talibus promissis inter homines. It is the nature of such gifts that upon (the Donors will) the Right should be as it were in passing from the Donour to the receiver till that day Et si cessit dies, saltem non venit. It is ⟨p. 59⟩not ours in Title till the Day. But indeed here is no prefixed day, nor proper Gift.
Prop. XLIV. We Must therefore carefully distinguish between these three forementioned Covenants, and that universal Law or conditional Covenant of Grace made to all mankind; which is it by which Christ ruleth, and will judge us: And which is his Instrument of conferring Right, and so of pardoning, Justifying, and Adopting us.