For the Minor, or Antecedent of the Major, 1. Understand, that I speak not of a deliverance from all necessity of perishing, even for their Sin against the Law: For there may be necessitas Consequentiae which is but necessitas Logica vel Conclusionis à praemissis Praescientiae & Lecreti Divini, which may remain; & necessitas ex rejectione remedii, follow, 2. And I speak not of actual remission of Mens Sins against the Law, as if Christ had pardoned all. But I say, all Men are delivered from that necessity of Perishing, which the Tenor of the first Law (as standing alone sine lege remediante) did impose. If Men perish now it shall not be merely, because they did not perfectly ⟨p. 108⟩obey: Whether you respect Adams Sin imputed to them, or any Sin of their own considered merely as against the Law of Works: Whether this liberation be by a proper Abrogation of the first Law: upon satisfaction undertaken) (as my Reverend Friend Mr. G. Lawson maintains in some Papers to me) or only by a Relaxation and Remission Per Legem Remediantem, i. e. an Act of Oblivion or Grace, (as I judg) the matter is of no great Moment, nor fit now to be debated: But that God condemneth no Man in the World, directly or merely because he did not perfectly obey, and because the Law remains without remedy, which saith [obey perfectly and live] or [he that ever Sinneth shall dye] is plain from all that hath been said already, and from many other plain Texts of Scripture, 1. If Christ command his Gospel to be preached to all (every Creature in the World viz. Rational) that is, Pardon and Life to be offered them, then they remain not under that Legal necessity of perishing, (viz, because all that Sin must dye,) But the Antecedent is proved ergo, &c. 2. If God have given by his New Testament or Law, a conditional pardon to all, then they are not under that mere Rigorous Law sine remedio: But &c, ergo, &c. 3. It is impossible that Men should be under the precept of the Gospel, and the mere remediless rigour of the Law of Works both at once: But multitudes of Non-Elect are under the precept of the Gospel Ergo, &c. The Minor is undeniable: It is their duty to believe. The Major is as plain: For the remediless rigour of the Law, (I mean the terror of the Law as standing alone, without the Law of Grace ⟨p. 109⟩to remedy its obligation) saith, Cursed is he that doth not all things, &c.
For the Minor, or Antecedent of the Major, 1. Understand, that I speak not of a deliverance from all necessity of perishing, even for their Sin against the Law: For there may be necessitas Consequentiae which is but necessitas Logica vel Conclusionis à praemissis Praescientiae & Lecreti Divini, which may remain; & necessitas ex rejectione remedii, follow, 2. And I speak not of actual remission of Mens Sins against the Law, as if Christ had pardoned all. But I say, all Men are delivered from that necessity of Perishing, which the Tenour of the first Law (as standing alone sine lege remediante) did impose. If Men perish now it shall not be meerly, because they did not perfectly ⟨p. 108⟩obey: Whether you respect Adams Sin imputed to them, or any Sin of their own consisidered meerly as against the Law of Works: Whether this liberation be by a proper Abrogation of the first Law: upon satisfaction undertaken) (as my Reverend Friend Mr. G. Lawson maintains in some Papers to me) or only by a Relaxation and Remission Per Legem Remediantem, i. e. an Act of Oblivion or Grace, (as I judg) the matter is of no great Moment, nor fit now to be debated: But that God condemneth no Man in the World, directly or meerly because he did not perfectly obey, and because the Law remains without remedy, which saith [obey perfectly and live] or [he that ever Sinneth shall dye] is plain from all that hath been said already, and from many other plain Texts of Scripture, 1. If Christ command his Gospel to be preached to all (every Creature in the World viz. Rational) that is, Pardon and Life to be offered them, then they remain not under that Legal necessity of pershing, (viz, because all that Sin must dye,) But the Antecedent is proved ergo, &c. 2. If God have given by his New Testament or Law, a conditional pardon to all, then they are not under that meer Rigorous Law sine remedio: But &c, ergo, &c. 3. It is impossible that Men should be under the precept of the Gospel, and the meer remediless rigor of the Law of Works both at once: But multitudes of Non-Elect are under the precept of the Gospel Ergo, &c. The Minor is undeniable: It is their duty to believe. The Major is as plain: For the remediless rigor of the Law, (I mean the terror of the Law as standing alone, without the Law of Grace ⟨p. 109⟩to remedy its obligation) saith, Cursed is he that doth not all things, &c.
