A discourse of the saving grace of God

2. Upon the same Account, Christ did not Merit Pardon or Salvation for any one certainly; and so his Death makes neither the Means nor the End certain. After he had done and suffered so much, been obedient unto Death, made his Soul an Offering for Sin, and obtained Eternal Redemption by his Blood; yet there was no Necessity that any one Sinner should ⟨p. 90⟩have Pardon and Life; no Certainty, that any one would be Pardoned and Saved: Christ left this altogether uncertain, and not to be determined but by Mans Freewill. After Christ had finished the Work of Redemption, as all might have been Saved, so all might have been Damned; There was no Value, Efficacy, Merit or Satisfaction, in Christs Death or Obedience, to make more sure Work: It was left at uncertainty, as it were at hap hazard, whether Salvation or Damnation should carry it; and Free-will alone must have the honour to determine it. Christ, they say, procured¹ by his Death a Power to destroy Unbelievers: So that he no more Purchased Salvation than Damnation; he is, by Virtue of his Death and Obedience, no more a Redeemer than a Destroyer of Mankind: Whether he should prove a Saviour of any, or a Destroyer of all, is left to the arbitrement of Free-will. There was, they say,² no other Necessity, nor Advantage, nor Value, in the Death of Christ, but what might have been perfectly salved, though all the Redeemed had Perished Eternally.

2. Upon the same Account, Christ did not Merit Pardon or Salvation for any one certainly; and so his Death makes neither the Means nor the End certain. After he had done and suffered so much, been obedient unto Death, made his Soul an Offering for Sin, and obtained Eternal Redemption by his Blood; yet there was no Necessity that any one Sinner should ⟨p. 90⟩have Pardon and Life; no Certainty, that any one would be Pardoned and Saved: Christ left this altogether uncertain, and not to be determined but by Mans Freewill. After Christ had finished the Work of Redemption, as all might have been Saved, so all might have been Damned; There was no Value, Efficacy, Merit or Satisfaction, in Christs Death or Obedience, to make more sure Work: It was left at uncertainty, as it were at hap hazard, whether Salvation or Damnation should carry it; and Free-will alone must have the honour to determine it. Christ, they say, procured