A27064:748
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. I deny it, if they mean by [assured] such as shall eventually be saved; but, say they, the issue of this Love being not perishing but obtaining Eternal Life, happens only to the Elect, Ergo, &c.
Answ. The Text speaks of no other effect of this Love, but the giving of Christ, and the giving of Eternal Life on Condition of believing. Now for the former, there is a twofold giving of Christ; First, giving him on the Cross for us. Secondly, Giving him in the word of Promise to us.
The Text seems to comprehend both. He is given on the Cross for all, he is given in the word conditionally to all, and so is Eternal Life with him.
Now, though the actual right to Eternal Life and fruition of it be not the portion of all, yet ⟨p. 295⟩that makes no alteration or differencing nature in this Universal Conditional promise, it is because one believed, and another did not. The Promise antecedently to the performance or non-performance of the Condition, gave Christ alike to the Elect, and non-Elect, and Life with him. But that some believed rather than others, was not from the gift of this Universal Conditional Promise, but from another cause, even Gods secret decree of Election.