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

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.

Prop. V. This New Law or Covenant doth not actually oblige men (for all the enacting of it) till it be Promulgate; that is, a rational sufficient publication of it, made to the World.