A27064:679
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.
21. It destroys almost the whole work of the Ministry, disabling Ministers either to humble ⟨p. 268⟩Men by the chiefest aggravations of their Sins, and to convince them of ingratitude and unkind dealing with Christ, or to show them any hopes to draw them to repentance, or any love and mercy tending to Salvation, to melt and win them to the Love of Christ; or any sufficient object for their Faith and affiance, or any means to be used for pardon or Salvation, or any promise to encourage them to come in, or any threatening to deter them.
21. It destroys almost the whole work of the Ministry, disabling Ministers either to humble ⟨p. 268⟩Men by the chiefest aggravations of their Sins, and to convince them of ingratitude and unkind dealing with Christ, or to shew them any hopes to draw them to repentance, or any love and mercy tending to Salvation, to melt and win them to the Love of Christ; or any sufficient object for their Faith and affiance, or any means to be used for pardon or Salvation, or any promise to encourage them to come in, or any threatening to deter them.
22. It makes God and the Redeemer to have done no more for the remedying of the misery of most of fallen mankind, then for the Devils, nor to have put them into any more possibility of pardon or Salvation.
22. It makes God and the Redeemer to have done no more for the remedying of the misery of most of faln mankind, then for the Devils, nor to have put them into any more possibility of pardon or Salvation.
23. Nay it makes God to have dealt far hardlier with most Men then with the Devils; making them a Law which requireth their believing in one that never died for them, and taking him for their Redeemer that never redeemed them, and that on the mere foresight that they would not believe it, or decree that they should not; and so to create by that Law a necessity of their far sorer punishment, without procuring them any possibility of avoiding it.