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

Arg. 7th. A veritate promissionis, & fidei conditionalitate.

If Christ satisfied not for all those to whom God promiseth pardon and Life on condition of believing, then God maketh promises which he would not, nor could he fulfil though the condition were performed. But the consequent is false: Therefore so is the Antecedent.

If Christ satisfied not for all those to whom God promiseth pardon and Life on condition of believing, then God maketh promises which he would not, nor could he fulfill though the condition were performed. But the consequent is false: Therefore so is the Antecedent.

There is nothing here requires any proof but the consequence of the Major proposition: And that is proved thus. God would not nor could give pardon and Life to any Man for whom Christ hath not satisfied. Therefore the consequence is good. 1. Else God should give pardon and Life without a Redeemer: Which he will not. 2. And he should do that which in the Judgment of most Divines he cannot do: (Not through impotence, but because of the inconvenience and unfitness of the thing:) For though he can alter ⟨p. 126⟩the nature of the Creatures, and so make that to be fit which now is unfit, yet stante rerum naturâ he cannot make those things fit, which ex natura rei are unfit: Nor can God do that which is unfit. And if it had not been unfit for the supreme Rector of the World to pardon Mans Sin without satisfaction, God would not so dearly have satisfied his own justice. Yea all say, that quoad potentiam ordinatam, God would not forgive Sin without satisfaction, whatsoever he might have done quoad potentiam absolutam. Now how gross is it, for any Man to imagine, that God should make so solemn a promise, in form of a Law of Grace, that he will pardon and save Men if they will believe, when if they could and should believe, he neither would nor could pardon or save them, for want of satisfaction to his Justice! Yea that he should require his Ministers so importunately, and unweariedly to entreat Men in his name to believe and be reconciled to him, and to tell them from him Man by Man [If thou wilt believe thou shalt be saved] When yet if he did believe he should not be saved.