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

Prop. VII. So little know we of the History of those remote parts of the World, that have not now the Gospel among them, that it is very hard for any man to know that those Countries never had the Gospel in any measure revealed to them. We may discern that now they want it, and that they know not themselves that ever they had it: But how far their contempt of it may in many places cause God to give them up to that Barbarism and Sottishness as may obliterate all former Revelations, and bury them in oblivion; this we cannot tell, the rather because that the Apostles (and many other Christians) of that Age did travel so far in execution of their Office, and the Gospel is then said to be Preached to all Nations, and the sound of it to have gone to the ends of the Earth, and through all the World: and because there hath been so much intercourse between some Christians or other, and most of these Nations since then, yet is it most probable that there are many savage parts where the name of Christ was never revealed with a competent sufficiency, yea, or at all.

Prop. VII. So little know we of the History of those remote parts of the World, that have not now the Gospel among them, that it is very hard for any man to know that those Countries never had the Gospel in any measure revealed to them. We may discern that now they want it, and that they know not themselves that ever they had it: But how far their contempt of it may in many places cause God to give them up to that Barbarism and Sottishness as may obliterate all former Revelations, and bury them in oblivion; this we cannot tell, the rather because that the Apostles (and many other Christians) of that Age did travel so far in execution of their Office, and the Gospel is then said to be Preached to all Nations, and the sound of it to have gone to the ends of the Earth, and through all the World: and because there hath been so much entercourse between some Christians or other, and most of these Nations since then, yet is it most probable that there are many savage parts where the name of Christ was never revealed with a competent sufficiency, yea, or at all.

Prop. VIII. The Heathens that never heard the Name of Jesus, have yet sufficient means afforded them to know (among many others) these following Truths.