Universal redemption of mankind, by the Lord Jesus Christ stated and cleared by the…

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.

2. You may enforce your objection as strongly concerning God's Love to the Elect: He once willed their Creation, then he willed to redeem them by Christ, then he willed to call them, and to give them their first justification, to deliver them from this sickness and that danger, then he willed that they should die, and then that they should rise again: If you will tell me how God after the Resurrection, will continue to all Eternity, to will to create Man, to redeem him, to call him, justify him, deliver him, raise him, &c. then I will tell you how God will Eternally will the giving Christ Pardon and Salvation conditionally to all. If you say, he Wills them as preterita, and not as presentia vel futura; you may say so by this. If you say, that there is no preteritum vel futurum with God, but all present, and therefore he willeth them as preterita sic dicta quoad hominem vel fidem mensuram humanam, sed ut presentia quoad Deum; the like you may say here also.

2. You may enforce your objection as strongly concerning God's Love to the Elect: He once willed their Creation, then he willed to redeem them by Christ, then he willed to call them, and to give them their first justification, to deliver them from this sickness and that danger, then he willed that they should die, and then that they should rise again: If you will tell me how God after the Resurrection, will continue to all Eternity, to will to create Man, to redeem him, to call him, justifie him, deliver him, raise him, &c. then I will tell you how God will Eternally will the giving Christ Pardon and Salvation conditionally to all. If you say, he Wills them as preterita, and not as presentia vel futura; you may say so by this. If you say, that there is no preteritum vel futurum with God, but all present, and therefore he willeth them as preterita sic dicta quoad hominem vel fidem mensuram humanam, sed ut presentia quoad Deum; the like you may say here also.