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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.
Thus far Mr. Perkins, whose words I have thus largely set down, both as a pattern for Ministers how to Preach the Doctrine of Redemption, and to show the necessity there is that Ministers and People do see (and discover to others) their Sin in this great aggravation, [as they were the crucifiers of Christ] and to show you what English Ministers Preach to the People whatever they speak in Disputes; and what kind of Preaching it is which hath succeeded so in England for the conversion of Souls! If this be not a plain Preaching of Universal Redemption or Satisfaction, as to all that hear the Gospel (whom he requires so oft to consider that Their sins crucified Christ) then I know not what is. And if any quirk may be produced to wrest so plain words to a contrary sense; I am sure the poor sinners to whom it is Preached know not ordinarily those evasions, but receive it in the plain sense. I could fill a Volume with the like passages as this, out of our most powerful and successful Preachers.
Thus far Mr. Perkins, whose words I have thus largely set doown, both as a pattern for Ministers how to Preach the Doctrine of Redemption, and to shew the necessity there is that Ministers and People do see (and discover to others) their Sin in this great aggravation, [as they were the crucifiers of Christ] and to shew you what English Ministers Preach to the People whatever they speak in Disputes; and what kind of Preaching it is which hath succeeded so in England for the conversion of Souls! If this be not a plain Preaching of Universal Redemption or Satitfaction, as to all that hear the Gospel (whom he requires so oft to consider that Their sins crucified Christ) then I know not what is. And if any quirke may be produced to wrest so plain words to a contrary sense; I am sure the poor sinners to whom it is Preached know not ordinarily those evasions, but receive it in the plain sense. I could fill a Volume with the like passages as this, out of our most powerful and successful Preachers.
Here then are two distinct aggravations of sin, both necessary to every penitent Soul, both which are denied by the denial of Universal satisfaction; The first is that our sins killed Christ as being the cause of his Death. Is not a man bound to mourn over him whom his sins have pierced