A27064:789
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. If you speak of God's Love as it is in effectu and not in affectu, then it is certainly mutable. He gives Men those mercies, which for their abuse he removeth or turneth to judgments. He gives to all a conditional Pardon, and Life: And after condemneth most to Death for not performing ⟨p. 300⟩the condition. To the Elect themselves these Effects are changeable.
2. If you speak of God's Love as it is in effectu and not in affectu, then it is certainly mutable. He gives Men those mercies, which for their •buse he removeth or turneth to judgments. He gives to all a conditional Pardon, and Life: And after condemneth most to Death for not performing ⟨p. 300⟩the condition. To the Elect themselves these Effects are changeable.
3. If you say, God's Love is but his Veil bonum alicui; and therefore he cannot be said now Men are in Hell to continue to will them a conditional Pardon and Life: Therefore God's Love must be mutable. I answer, Let those Owls that love to blind themselves by gazing on the Sun of God's undiscernible Infiniteness, undertake to tell what God's Love is, and what his Will is, and how he Wills that which is past, &c. For my part I pretend not to a capacity of discerning any such things.
3. If you say, God's Love is but his Velle bonum alicui; and therefore he cannot be said now Men are in Hell to continue to will them a conditional Pardon and Life: Therefore God's Love must be mutable. I answer, Let those Owls that love to blind themselves by gazing on the Sun of God's undiscernable Infiniteness, undertake to tell what God's Love is, and what his Will is, and how he Wills that which is past, &c. For my part I pretend not to a capacity of discerning any such things.