A27064:594
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.
Argum. 23d. A statu hominum saltem non pejore statu Daemonum.
If Christ Died not for all, (that hear the Gospel) then Gods dealing with the Non-elect part of fallen Man is much harder than his dealing with the Devils, but the Consequent is false, therefore so is the Antecedent.
The Minor I think I need not prove, all acknowledge it that ever I heard or read, on this subject: If they should think that God dealt alike with the Non-elect and the Devils, yet sure none will say that he deals far hardlier with the Non-elect: Hell is prepared for the Devil and his Angels, they are reserved in Chains of Darkness ⟨p. 232⟩to the Judgment of the great Day; till then they believe and tremble, and look for the time of their full torment without any hope of escape: Compare with this, but what I have before proved to be Gods dealing with men, even them that perish, and you will see that their case is not worse than the Devils.
And for the Consequence of the Major Proposition, I prove it thus; by comparing both together. When the Devils had fallen from their first estate, God leaves them without remedy or hope of recovery. But when man is fallen, (according to the Doctrine which I oppose) God doth not only leave him remediless but also makes a new Law that shall oblige him to suffer a far sorer punishment, except he will believe in a Redeemer that is not his Redeemer, and trust for salvation to that Blood that was never shed for him, and accept the benefits of a satisfaction that was never made for him, even effects without a cause: Yea and causeth his Son to make a satisfaction materially sufficient for the sins of all; and yet had rather it were superfluous and vain, and merely lost, then that it should be paid for him: As if he would rather when three Men owe 100 l. a piece, pay 300 l. for one of the three, than the other 200 l. should be tendered for the rest; And when he knows that Christ never satisfied for any of the Non-elect, yet doth he follow them with daily solicitations by his Word, Spirit and Ambassadors, beseeching them to come in and accept of Christ, ordaining and resolving that all these beseechings, shall harden them, or at least aggravate their sin and and misery, that it may be easier with Sodom and