A27064:660
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.
2. It maketh God either not to offer the effects of Christs satisfaction (Pardon and Life) to all, but only to the Elect: or else to offer that which is not, and which he cannot give.
3. It denieth the direct object of Faith, and of Gods offer, that is Christum qui satisfecit, [a Christ that hath satisfied.]
4. It either denieth the Non-Elects deliverance from that flat necessity of perishing, which came on man for sinning against the first Law, by its remediless unsuspended obligation, (and so neither, Christ, Gospel or Mercy, had ever any nature of a remedy to them, nor any more done toward their deliverance then towards the deliverance of the Devils:) Or else it maketh this deliverance and remedy to be without satisfaction by Christ for them.
5. It either denieth that God commandeth all to believe (but only the Elect: Or else maketh God to assign them a deceiving Object for their Faith, commanding them to believe in that which never was, and to trust that which would deceive them if they did trust it.