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

To the 6th. It is a naked affirmation, as easily denied. Dare Men say, that it was no mercy or love of God, to give mankind in Adam Eternal Life on condition of keeping his Law, because God foreknew or foredecreed, they would not or should not keep it? And so not attain the fruit of that Govenant thereby? Dare these Men (pretending to preach the Gospel) tell their hearers, that to all of them (except the Elect) the preaching, the Gospel (and therein the offer and conditional gift of Christ, Pardon, Justification and Salvation is no mercy, nor from any love of God to them? And so that in rejecting it they never were guilty of rejecting or sinning against any love or mercy?

Having examined what they say, to prove that by [the World] is meant [the Elect only] I find it needless to examine the rest about the Sense of the word [loved] and [whosoever] partly because what they say requires not much confutation, and partly because enough is said on occasion of this. I affirm that by love is not meant a mere natural affection, nor yet a mere Act: (But if we must speak of God after the manner of Men) it is an Act proceeding from the goodness of God's nature. And I deny not this Act to be free: And therefore take not natural, For,

Having examined what they say, to prove that by [the World] is meant [the Elect only] I find it needless to examine the rest about the Sense of the word [loved] and [whosoever] partly because what they say requires not much confutation, and partly because enough is said on occasion of this. I affirm that by love is not meant a meer natural affection, nor yet a meer Act: (But if we must speak of God after the manner of Men) it is an Act proceeding from the goodness of God's nature. And I deny not this Act to be free: And therefore take not natural, For,

Physical (as if God loved us as the Fire burned, quantum in se)