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

And it is undeniable that this New Law hath a punishment privative specifically distinct in Natura rei from that of the old Law. That is, the privation of Christ as their Head, and of pardon, justification by him, Adoption by him, and Salvation from deserved misery, beside, the loss of a greater promised glory, yea and a second loss of their first happiness. If any therefore shall say, that because Men are condemned already and the Gospel doth only Non-liberare not save unbelievers; therefore it is a mere promise, and not a Law, and so hath no proper penalty of its own; I answer. 1. I have showed it hath a sorer punishment as its positive penalty. 2. The denial of a greater glory, which Christ giveth by the New Law, above what the old Law gave, is a proper and grievous punishment. 3. The denial of those blessed Relations of [a Member of Christ and in him an adopted Son of God, and Heir of Heaven, &c.] is a sore and proper punishment. 4. The Privation even of that Life which was given by the first Law, is a proper penalty of the second, because the New Law, doth restore to all Men their lost right to Life, on an easy condition, and therefore as the Privation of Life ⟨p. 257⟩is first given or promised in the first Law, was the penalty of that Law, so the Privation of the same Life as redeemed and restored by the Mediator, is the penalty of the new Law: So that it is a recovered happiness that they this way lose, and so are twice dead, as Jude speaks. 5. The very Non-Liberation of the new Law, in denial of Remission and Salvation, is a great and proper penalty: As the Non-continuation of Adams happiness in paradise was a penalty of that Law (and the not-giving of a greater, if that Law did promise a greater.) If a Prince make an Act of pardon and oblivion for a company of imprisoned condemned Malefactors in these terms, that if they will repent and thankfully accept his favour, they shall all be pardoned, and also dignified to be Princes and his Favourites: If they will not, none of them shall be pardoned, but all shall die by a more cruel Death. Here this Law of Grace hath as its peculiar penalty. 1. Their Non-liberation, and so their first deserved Death, not as first deserved, but as confirmed, and peremptorily adjudged to them for their ingratitude; and so. 2. The loss of Life, as it was conditionally restored, and was in Law, as it were, a new Life. 3.

And it is undeniable that this New Law hath a punishment privative specifically distinct in Natura rei from that of the old Law. That is, the privation of Christ as their Head, and of pardon, justification by him, Adoption by him, and Salvation from deserved misery, beside, the loss of a greater promised glory, yea and a second loss of their first happiness. If any therefore shall say, that because Men are condemned already and the Gospel doth only Non-liberare not save unbelievers; therefore it is a meer promise, and not a Law, and so hath no proper penalty of its own; I answer. 1. I have shewed it hath a sorer punishment as its positive penalty. 2. The denial of a greater glory, which Christ giveth by the New Law, above what the old Law gave, is a proper and grievous punishment. 3. The denial of those blessed Relations of [a Member of Christ and in him an adopted Son of God, and Heir of Heaven, &c.] is a sore and proper punishment. 4. The Privation even of that Life which was given by the first Law, is a proper penalty of the second, because the New Law, doth restore to all Men their lost right to Life, on an easy condition, and therefore as the Privation of Life