A27064:613
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.
Answ. No, They do nihil ponere in Objecto; nor are the removal or denial of any efficient cause of Salvation, they infer only Necessitatem Consequentiae, they make no Mans Salvation impossible, ⟨p. 239⟩but only prove it not future: And as it is not omne Possible that is futurum, so neither omne non futurum that is Impossibile. And it is agreed that foreknowledge presupposeth the futurition or non futurition of the thing foreknown. But there is much more necessary to be said to resolve this doubt which I may not now insist on, only I add, that the matter of God's Decrees, and the futurition of things as depending thereon, are so high, and so far above us, that it becomes us not to be too inquisitive into them, much less so peremptorily to determine of them as some do, and least of all to try plainer Cases by such determinations, and reduce certainties to uncertainties, when we should tather reduce uncertainties to certainties.
Answ. No, They do nihil ponere in Objecto; nor are the removal or denyal of any efficient cause of Salvation, they infer only Necessitatem Consequentiae, they make no Mans Salvation impossible, ⟨p. 239⟩but only prove it not future: And as it is not omne Possible that is futurum, so neither omne non futurum that is Impossibile. And it is agreed that foreknowledge presupposeth the futurition or non futurition of the thing foreknown. But there is much more necessary to be said to resolve this doubt which I may not now insist on, only I add, that the matter of God's Decrees, and the futurition of things as depending thereon, are so high, and so far above us, that it becomes us not to be too inquisitive into them, much less so peremptorily to determine of them as some do, and least of all to try plainer Cases by such determinations, and reduce certainties to uncertainties, when we should tather reduce uncertainties to certainties.
And for the Minor, (that the state of most men even in the Church, is not so hopeless, deplorate and remediless as is the case of the Damned) I prove it thus. They might be saved who are yet on Earth, if they would but receive the love of the truth,