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Excerpt from The Assurance of Faith, or Calvinism Identified With Universalism, Vol. 2
To this I may add, that the principle so admirably stated and developed by'mr. Barclay, although I con fess never intended by him to apply to my present pur pose, is that which, when followed out, renders the sacred volume in regard to the point in question con sistent with itself. God, he argues, after manifesting to his people, that eternal life is unconditionally bestowed; and, consequently, after manifesting to them, that it is their own certain and indefeasible privilege can never contradict himself by manifesting it to them as condi tionally bestowed from which he draws the conclusion, that the conditional promises made to them' must have a reference, not to eternity, but to time. By applying this admirable principle to the matter in hand, an easy, complete, and satisfactory solution of all the difiiculties connected with it, is at once Obtained. The fact of eternal life being in one sense unconditionally bestowed, implies, that ultimately it shall be enjoyed by the whole human race. The fact Of its being In another sense conditionally bestowed, implies, that only a portion of the human race shall, while on earth, be admitted to the. Participation of it.
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