Universal redemption of mankind, by the Lord Jesus Christ stated and cleared by the…

2 They were both under the same Law, •urse and Wrath of God.

3. The Deed of Gift, or Promise which re•itteth one, is the same with that which remitteth the other. The Minor is plain, for if any •ould say, that without Christs Death, God •ight conditionally have pardoned all Elect and ⟨p. 102⟩Non-elect; but not Actually. I Answer. 1. Then Christ should Die only to purchase Faith: (which is false.) For God doth perform no new act to make the conditional Gift become actual, but only the giving of Grace to believe and so perform the condition. 2. Then God might have made this new Law and Covenant of Grace, [Believe and be pardoned and saved] or [Whosoever will let him take the Water of Life freely] without any expiatory Sacrifice or Satisfaction by Christ; which, 1. So contradicteth it self, (seeing the thing given is a Dead revived Saviour with his Benefits; and therefore it cannot be given which is not.) 2. And so subverteth Christianity it self, that I think I need not spend more words on it.

Only I add this (which is of considerable moment,) that on the contrary, the great necessity and ends of Christs Death are in respect to God as Rector per leges, and not as Dominus absolutus, or benefactor merè arbitrarius: God received no addition of Love, or Goodwill, nor of Wisdom, or Natural Power by Christs Death: But he received a Reparation of his honour as Legislator, and a Moral Power (consisting in Convenient rei efficiendae) to pardon sin by making a general act of pardon to all that will accept the Redeemer and his Benefits. So that the proper use of Christs Death was to be an Expiatory Sacrifice for Sin, offered to God as the offended Rector. And therefore the New Law or Covenant of Grace which followeth hereupon (giving Christ and Pardon to all that will Receive him) must needs be the proper effect of Christs Death. Whereas Faith is given rather by God as Dominus Absolutu