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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.
Object. If he should believe and be saved, whom God hath foreknow nor decreed to be condemned for Unbelief, then God should be deceived or change. But it is impossible for God to be deceived or change; therefore it is impossible for him to believe and be saved whom God hath foreknown or decreed to condemn for unbelief.
Answ. It is a vicious Argument. There's more in the conclusion than in the premises. No more will follow but this, [therefore he will not believe and be saved whom God, &c.] not [it is impossible] for God never foreknew or decreed that it should be impossible for him to believe and be saved, but only that he would not eventually believe and be saved.
2. When I speak (before in the Argument) of Gods will, it is not of his will of Decree, but of his will as he is in the relation of Rector per Leges and so giveth that Salvation as executor of his Laws and Sentence, which by his Laws he first gave Right to. God as Rector and Legislator neither will nor can give Salvation to any that Christ dyed not for, if they should believe: But God as Legislator or Rector would give salvation to all that Christ Dyed for if they believe, though it were supposed that he had foreknown or decreed that such men would not believe. Only ⟨p. 130⟩it would follow that God was mistaken▪ And therefore such a thing will never come to pass▪ for God will not be mistaken. It is God as legislator to whom it belongs to be true, in making good his promises, which is the thing in Question.
2. When I speak (before in the Argument) of Gods will, it is not of his will of Decree, but of his will as he is in the relation of Rector per Leges and so giveth that Salvation as executor of his Laws and Sentence, which by his Laws he first gave Right to. God as Rector and Legislator neither will nor can give Salvation to any that Christ dyed not for, if they should believe: But God as Legislator or Rector would give salvation to all that Christ Dyed for if they believe, though it were supposed that he had foreknown or decreed that such men would not believe. Only