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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.
4. That God is mutable in his Love, or else he still loveth those that be in Hell.
5. That he gives not all things to them to whom he gives his Son.
6. That he knows not certainly before, who shall believe and be saved.
Ans. To the first I thought no Antiarminian Divine ever denied it. God hateth all the Workers of iniquity, Psal. 5. 5. You will not say, that he hated them not from Eternity: Many of the Workers of iniquity are Elect, and so loved from Eternity. God's Love is spoken, say Divines, ab effectu, potius quam ab affectu. God from Eternity so loved Men, not Elect, as to give them on Creation Everlasting Life in Adam, on condition of fulfilling the first Covenant; and to give them everlasting life in Christ on condition of believing according to the second Covenant: And yet he decreed not to give any Men Grace to perform the condition of the first covenant; nor to give all men Grace to perform the condition of the second.