A27064:817
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.
Did he send his Son that they might be saved?
Ans. This is anon to be answered by it self as a great argument against Universal Redemption; and I am loath to repeat one thing ⟨p. 308⟩oftener than needs I must. Only I say, when Christ died Millions of Men were actually saved: Did God send his Son to save them that were saved already? yes, no doubt: even to do that which he had undertaken to do presently on the fall, to pay a sufficient satisfaction for the sins of all, whether since that undertaking they be saved or damned.
Thirdly, They say, Christ was appointed for the fall of some, therefore not that all and every one might be saved, Luke 2. 34.
Ans. Themselves will fasten no other sense on that of Luke but this [God hath decreed to permit many through their own wilfulness to stumble and fall on Christ: and so he shall by accident, or as an occasion, be their ruin] Now this is no whit inconsistent with Gods ordaining him to be per se and directly a means for all mens Salvation, in the sense before fully opened.