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

So the Example of Ahab, the Ninevites, &c. Show clearly: For that which God did in mercy in respect to their humiliation, was some kind of Remission. 2. And further I prove it as by these express Texts of Scripture, so by this Scripture reason: Either God remitteth much of the temporal punishment, or else he shows them no mercy: (And consequently they are not beholden to him, nor owe him any thanks) but God doth show them mercy, Ergo, &c. He that remitteth none of the punishment due, showeth no mercy, in this case: And he that showeth mercy remitteth part of the punishment, for it was part of the punishment to be deprived of the mercies which wicked Men enjoy: Who dare once imagine, that Health, Strength, Friends, Liberty, Peace, Riches, Honour, Food, Raiment, Houses, Accommodations, Cattle, all Creatures to serve us, Public Peace, Sun, Rain, Fruits of the Earth, prospering of our Labours, &c. Knowledge, Parts, Motions of the Spirit, excellent means, and offers of Grace, Godly society and Examples, Admonitions, Taste of the good word of God and the powers of the World co come, Illumination, Partaking of the Holy Ghost, working Miracles, casting out Devils, hearing the word with joy, believing for a time, ⟨p. 210⟩clean escaping the pollutions of the World by the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, to be sanctified with the blood of the Covenant, to be loved of Christ (as the man was Mar. 10. 21.) to have the easiest place in Hell, &c. who dare say that none of all these are Mercies? Or that the enjoyment of these may stand with the full execution of the sentence of the Law? If the Curse lay in the deprivation of these, then the enjoyment of them is a remission of that curse or Penalty: But &c. Ergo, &c. read Deut. 28.

So the Example of Ahab, the Ninevites, &c. Shew clearly: For that which God did in mercy in respect to their humiliation, was some kind of Remission. 2. And further I prove it as by these express Texts of Scripture, so by this Scripture reason: Either God remitteth much of the temporal punishment, or else he shews them no mercy: (And consequently they are not beholden to him, nor owe him any thanks) but God doth shew them mercy, Ergo, &c. He that remitteth none of the punishment due, sheweth no mercy, in this case: And he that sheweth mercy remitteth part of the punishment, for it was part of the punishment to be deprived of the mercies which wicked Men enjoy: Who dare once imagine, that Health, Strength, Friends, Liberty, Peace, Riches, Honour, Food, Raiment, Houses, Accommodations, Cattel, all Creatnres to serve us, Publick Peace, Sun, Rain, Fruits of the Earth, prospering of our Labours, &c. Knowledg, Parts, Motions of the Spirit, excellent means, and offers of Grace, Godly society and Examples, Admonitions, Tast of the good word of God and the powers of the World co come, Illumination, Partaking of the Holy Ghost, working Miracles, casting out Devils, hearing the word with joy, believing for a time,