And for the Major proposition it is as clear. For there can be no effects without a cause: As no man can receive the effects of Christs Death, but those for whom he died; so no man can lose or be deprived of those effects, but those for whom he died; for the cause is presupposed. A Negation is no Punishment. ⟨p. 261⟩It is not a punishment to a Stone that it is not a Man, that it is mute, lifeless, &c. nor to a Beast, not to be saved, nor to an Angel not to be Redeemed, nor to the Devils, not to be partakers of Christ, and of Pardon and Salvation by him. Now its true, the Pardon of the Damned, and their Salvation was not actually effected, but the meritorious cause was full and perfect in Christs satisfaction (and moral causes go long before the effects sometimes, and may do all their part, and yet the effect not follow through the defect of some other,) and the effects were conditionally given or produced by the New Covenant, and thereby become not only possible and probable, but certain if the condition were performed: So that here is a proper privation, and not a bare Negation. Nor is it the mere matter of such effects that men are deprived of, but formally as they were effects conditionally granted, and were to have been effects actually of the death of Christ. They should have been such effects, if they had done their part to procure them by performing the condition as Christ did in the Cause; for he required not them to effect it as concauses, but only suspended the effects of his own full sufficient (but Moral) cause, on their condition, which all Lawyers, and all that know what a Moral Cause is, or what a proper condition is, know to be most usual. Now if you suppose that Christ died not, and satisfied not for these men, then the loss of Pardon, Adoption, Membership of Christ, final Absolution, Salvation, besides all the greater Glory, and all the Spirits Graces and Workings ⟨p. 262⟩in this life, cannot possibly be punishments to them, for they cannot be Privations. For there was never any cause to procure them, and therefore they were never possible, much less due: and Mans Faith was not required by God to be the meritorious cause, or to satisfy Gods Justice, nor yet to procure Christ or any other to satisfy it, nor yet to make that satisfaction to be now for us, which was made for others and not for us:
And for the Major proposition it is as clear. For there can be no effects without a cause: As no man can receive the effects of Christs Death, but those for whom he died; so no man can lose or be deprived of those effects, but those for whom he died; for the cause is presupposed. A Negation is no Punishment. ⟨p. 261⟩It is not a punishment to a Stone that it is not a Man, that it is mute, liveless, &c. nor to a Beast, not to be saved, nor to an Angel not to be Redeemed, nor to the Devils, not to be partakers of Christ, and of Pardon and Salvation by him. Now its true, the Pardon of the Damned, and their Salvation was not actually effected, but the meritorious cause was full and perfect in Christs satisfaction (and moral causes go long before the effects sometimes, and may do all their part, and yet the effect not follow through the defect of some other,) and the effects were conditionally given or produced by the New Covenant, and thereby become not only possible and probable, but certain if the condition were performed: So that here is a proper privation, and not a bare Negation. Nor is it the meer matter of such effects that men are deprived of, but formally as they were effects conditionally granted, and were to have been effects actually of the death of Christ. They should have been such effects, if they had done their part to procure them by performing the condition as Christ did in the Cause; for he required not them to effect it as concauses, but only suspended the effects of his own full sufficient (but Moral) cause, on their condition, which all Lawyers, and all that know what a Moral Cause is, or what a proper condition is, know to be most usual. Now if you suppose that Christ died not, and satisfied not for these men, then the loss of Pardon, Adoption, Membership of Christ, final Absolution, Salvation, besides all the greater Glory, and all the Spirits Graces and Workings ⟨p. 262⟩in this life, cannot possibly be punishments to them, for they cannot be Privations. For there was never any cause to procure them, and therefore they were never possible, much less due: and Mans Faith was not required by God to be the meritorious cause, or to satisfie Gods Justice, nor yet to procure Christ or any other to satisfie it, nor yet to make that satisfaction to be now for us, which was made for others and not for us:
