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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.
Arg. 5. Ab aequitate novae Legis Credendi Debitum Constituentis.
The Faith which God requireth of Men to their Justification, hath not a feigned or deceiving object: But it should have such an object if Christ have not satisfied for all who are ⟨p. 111⟩commanded to belie• ergo, &c. Or t••s; if Christ have not satisfied for all who are commanded to believe in him to Justification, then the Faith commanded them should have a feigned or deceiving object. But the Faith commanded them hath not a feigned or deceiving object ergo, &c.
All the proof requisite is of the consequence of the Major Proposition. And here we must first know what the justifying Act of Faith is, and then what the object must be, and then the consequence will manifest it self, Divines are not agreed what the justifying Act of Faith is, some think it must be but one Act, and therefore it must be placed but in one faculty: Of these some place it only in the understanding, as Camero and many others: Some only in the Will as Amesius and some few with him. Some and most place it in both faculties and so in divers Acts (and that rightly). And indeed it hath divers Acts in each faculty: For as it is more then one particular Truth or enunciation which is the object of Assent, and therefore must have divers Acts of Assent; so it is in more then one shape and profitable respect that the Goodness of the object is presented to the Will, and therefore it must there have several Acts, as consent, affiance, &c. Now let us first enquire after the Acts of the understanding; where I will meddle with none but what is ordinarily by Divines asserted to be justifying or prerequisite thereto. And 1. I will let that pass which Dr. Twiss makes the first Act, viz. To believe Gods word to be true: For if it be not known what that word is here is no material object of Faith; but the formal object