The divine will considered in its eternal decrees, and holy execution of them. By…

I answer; 'Tis true that God eternally foresaw those Rejecters of Christ, and that Christ in time died for them, nevertheless there is no blot hereby cast on the divine Wisdom; 'tis no disparagement to the All-wise God to bestow Means of Eternal Bliss on such as he eternally foresaw would abuse the same to their own destruction: Oh! what rare Perfections did he set up in the Angels, and yet he eternally foresaw a great part of them apostatizing and ⟨p. 314⟩dropping to Hell; What an excellent Image of Holiness did he stamp upon Adam? and yet he eternally foresaw him falling, and breaking all his Glory by the the Fall; what waitings of Patience, wooings of the Gospel and touches of the holy Spirit doth he dispense to such men as he eternally foresaw would abuse all these? and yet in all this God's Wisdom suffers not. The very same I may say of Christ's dying for such as abuse this great blessing; neither is there here any failing in the efficacious Will of God, for he wills that the Elect shall believe and be saved, and he wills that the rest shall be saved if they believe, and both these Wills are accomplished, the first in the Event of Faith and Salvation, and the latter in the Connection between Faith and Salvation, even as to all men. God may be said to will the Salvation of men through Christ's Death two ways; either because he wills that Christ's Death should be a Price infallibly procuring their Faith and Salvation, or else because he wills that there should be in Christ's Death an aptness and sufficiency to save them on Gospel-terms: the former Will points only at the Elect, and is fulfilled in their Grace and Glory; the ⟨p. 315⟩latter extends to all men, and is fulfilled in the aptness and sufficiency of Christ's Death to save them on Gospel-terms; in both God's Will hath its effect. Neither lastly is there any loss in Christ's purchase, for what did he purchase? As for the Elect, he purchased Faith and Salvation, and as for the rest, he purchased Salvation on Gospel-terms, in both he hath what he paid for; for the Elect believe and are saved, and the rest may be saved if they believe: therefore when men by their Unbelief bar themselves of the benefit of Christ's Death, and make him in that respect cry out, I have laboured in vain, yet he adds, surely my judgment is with the Lord, Isai. 49. 4.