A golden mine opened, or, The glory of God's rich grace displayed in the…

2. Besides, it renders Christ to be but a Conditional Redeemer, could the Creature answer the Condition; yea, and it puts Christ but into a possibility also of being a Redeemer, (as one well observes) he is not actually so whilst he stands under that Conditionality; ¹for the Conditionality doth not only lie upon the Person to be redeemed, so that he cannot be a redeemed One, till the Condition is performed: But it puts also a Bar to the Purchaser, he can't in any good sense be called the Redeemer of such a Person, 'till the Person hath performed the Condition. As for Example, if I lay down an hundred Pounds for the Redemption of a Person in Slavery, upon this Condition that he yield to serve me seven Years after, I must have his Consent to these Terms before I can redeem him; and therefore upon this Condition I am certainly suspended from being a Redeemer, and am no Redeemer to the said Person, if he refuse the Terms; all that I have done is but a Proffer of Terms. Hence (saith the said Reverend Author) for Christ to be a Conditional Universal Redeemer, is a Contradiction; for it's to be but a Redeemer of some that perform the Condition, and no Redeemer to them who do not.

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6. To which let me add, this Notion of Conditional Redemption, renders Salvation not to be freely of God's Grace, no not the very Purchase it self; because in the Design of it, it was not to be had without the Creatures Money, I mean without his answering the Condition of Repentance, Faith, Regeneration, and final Perseverance, &c. which to do, they deny Christ's purchased Grace and Power for all or any one; or hath he promised to perform it for them, or to work it in them? No, but it is that which absolutely the Creature must find Power, Strength, and Skill to do, or perish for ever, the Redemption being intended for ⟨p. 252⟩