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

Arg. 19. A comparatione Legis Gratiae cum Lege operum.

If Christ Died not for all (to whom the Gospel comes) then the Law of Grace doth contain far harder terms than the Law of Works. But the consequent is false, therefore so is the Antecedent.

The Consequence of the Major Proposition I prove thus: The Law of Works, as given to man in Innocency, required nothing that was Impossible for man in that state to do: But (if Christ satisfied not for all) the Law of Grace should require Impossibilities, and condemn men for want of them, and so should contain much harder terms than the Law of Works; Yea the Law of Works as given to fallen man (if so it were) contained nothing contradictory, and so impossible in it self, though man through sin was disabled to perform it: But the Law of Grace, should, if this Doctrine opposed were true. If the Law of Grace require men to take him for their Redeemer, and rest on him as their Redeemer, that never redeemed them, it should contain a contradiction. If according to this Law, men must be everlastingly condemned because they did not receive him as their Lord-Redeemer, that never paid for them any price of Redemption; and because they did not receive and apply to themselves the effects and benefits of a satisfaction, which was never made for them▪ and so could not possibly be a cause of such effects▪ and because they did not rest on Christ to Justify and Save them by his Blood which was never shed for them; these are impossibilities, and far harder terms than those of the Law of Works. Yea, if when man is already condemned, the Law of Grace say, that he shall undergo a far sorer punishment, and it shall be easier for Sodom ⟨p. 215⟩and Gomorrah in the day of Judgment than him, except he will do these impossibilities, this is still harder. It is not all the believing in the World (supposing it were performed) that would make Christs Death, which is past, to be suffered for those that it was not suffered for. This makes Christ to come into the World to condemn the World, and that to a far sorer punishment than the Law of Works did oblige them to, without procuring them any possibility of escaping; For there's no possibility of that mans escape, for whom no price of Redemption is paid. Nay it lays an absolute necessity ab extra, and unavoidable, on men of perishing under this double damnation. For he that before I am born makes a Law, that I shall dye except I have part in a payment that was made 1000 years ago and that only for others and not at all for me, he doth necessitate my Death by that Law: