Universal redemption of mankind, by the Lord Jesus Christ stated and cleared by the…

Prop. IV. The New Law, Testament, Promise or Gift, which saith, [Whosoever Repenteth ⟨p. 458⟩and Believeth shall be saved; and whoever doth not shall be Damned] doth, as to its Tenor, or extent of the sense of the words, belong to all men in the World, even those that never heard the Gospel.

Prop. IV. The New Law, Testament, Promise or Gift, which saith, [Whosoever Repenteth ⟨p. 458⟩and Believeth shall be saved; and whoever doth not shall be Damned] doth, as to its Tenour, or extent of the sense of the words, belong to all men in the World, even those that never heard the Gospel.

This is so ordinarily acknowledged, that I need not prove it: Nor doth it need any other proof than the recital of the Covenant terms. The Promise is universal, and no man on Earth is excepted or excluded: so that Christ may be said to have, [1. Obliged All men to Believe. 2. And constituted Faith a condition of Salvation to all men. 3. And obliged himself to give them Remission and Salvation if they do Believe;] quantum attinet ad merum Legislatorem, as far as belongs to him as mere Legislator, or as to the mere enacting of his new Law, Grant, Testament, which is constituted and perfected with his Fiat: And of the three forementioned Acts, the last, which is the obligation on Christ's part, is most full and irreversible: For though there goes yet more to the actual obliging of the Subject to perform the condition, and of Christ to give the benefit, when the condition is performed; yet to the first conditional Obligation of Christ to give it, there is no more requisite to make it real and irreversible, than this enacting, so that the New Law or Covenant extendeth to all the World, as to its sense or tenor.

This is so ordinarily acknowledged, that I need not prove it: Nor doth it need any other proof than the recital of the Covenantterms. The Promise is universal, and no man on Earth is excepted or excluded: so that Christ may be said to have, [1. Obliged All men to Believe. 2. And constituted Faith a condition of Salvation to all men. 3. And obliged himself to give them Remission and Salvation if they do Believe;] quantum attinet ad merum Legislatorem, as far as belongs to him as mere Legislator, or as to the meer enacting of his new Law, Grant, Testament, which is constituted and perfected with his Fiat: And of the three forementioned Acts, the last, which is the obligation on Christ's part, is most full and irreversible: For though there goes yet more to the actual obliging of the Subject to perform the condition, and of Christ to give the benefit, when the condition is performed; yet to the first conditional Obligation of Christ to give it, there is no more requisite to make it real and irreversible, than this enacting, so that the New Law or Covenant extendeth to all the World, as to its sense or tenour.