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§82

The fifth Argument of Jurieu.In the 5th. place Jurieu thus reasons. If the Redemption of Christ were Universal, Salvation would be Universal too.63 For he merited for Men, not only Remission of Sins, and Eternal Life, but also Faith, Grace, Repentance, Conversion, and the Habits of Vertues and Good-works, and likewise the Condition of the Acceptance, namely, Repentance and Conversion. From whence it should follow that all Men should be actually sav’d. But to these things the Answer is easie. God Wills that all Men should be sav’d, but not after an irresistible manner as things are wrought in the Kingdom of Nature, and where the Laws of Motion take place: but in a certain Order, and so as that there may be a Morality existent in the Business of Conversion, and so that the Fault of Damnation may be laid upon Men themselves. Therefore the Business of Salvation and Conversion, is not to be measur’d by the Omnipotence of God, or by the manner used by God in the Creation of things, where he only said, let it be, and it was so. But in the Conversion of Men, God enters into Covenant, he invites, admonishes, asks, threatens, the Power of Resisting still remaining in Man, Psal. 95:8. Whence Christ did merit, ’tis true that Men might be able to accept the Efficacy of his Death, but yet so as that he does not compel them, nor dispose them by an Indispensible Necessity to accept of it. And Jurieu trifles with the word necessary Grace, (p. 92.) Christ did by his Death merit the Grace necessary to Salvation, that is that without which it cannot be obtain’d, or laid hold on, but not such Grace as brings an inevitable Necessity. And it is certain that the Death of Christ belongs to all, but a great part of Mankind miss of the Benefit of it by their own Fault.

[63.]Jurieu, De Pace, p. 91.