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

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.

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 ruine] 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.

4. They say, the end of God in sending Christ was not contrary to any of Gods Decrees; which were eternally fixed concerning the condemnation of some for their sins: Did he send his Son to Save such?

Ans. 1. As it is no contradiction for God to command an action, and to decree the non-futurition of that action; so it is no contradiction for God as Legislator by his Law or Testament to ordain that Salvation shall be to every man the end prescribed him when he is commanded to believe; and faith a means to that end; and to give him Salvation under his hand in his Testament on condition of believing; and to purpose accordingly that he shall be saved if he will believe; and yet at the same time either ⟨p. 309⟩not to Decree to give him Faith, or to Decree not to give him Faith, and consequently not actually de eventu to save him.