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Universal redemption of mankind, by the Lord Jesus Christ stated and cleared by the…
Universal redemption of mankind, by the Lord Jesus Christ stated and cleared by the late learned Mr. Richard Barter [sic] ; whereunto is added a short account of Special redemption, by the same author.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1694
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. The same word is applied to God in the same manner of Speech, twice before in this same Epistle, and in both places is he called (a Saviour) in respect to Eternal Salvation, and not to Temporal only ⟨p. 369⟩1 Tim. 1. 1. [Paul an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ our Hope. [1 Tim. 2. 3] For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all Men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the Truth For there is ••e God, and one Mediator between God and Man, ••e Man Jesus Christ, who gave himself a Ransom for all, to be testified in due time.) He that denieth that the Apostle doth in both these places ••ll God a Saviour, in respect to Spiritual and Everlasting Salvation, is either very blind or perverse. And is it not fit for us to understand the same phrase used in the next Chapter save ••e as in the same Sense? If one Scripture must interpret another, sure it is. On 1 Tim. 1. 1. ••scator himself can expound the same Phrase ••us [observa nomen [Greek or Hebrew] servatoris etiam Patri ••ribui. Is enim servat nos per Filium: Quippe ••m salutis nostrae causd misit, & per quem nos sibi •conciliavit, per quem etiam Spiritum Sanctum •• nos mittit. [And will not an impartial Man ••en expound the same Phrase here in the ••me manner? Specially there being no rea•• to be brought from the Text to the contra••. Even so doth Calvin expound