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

Prop. XXVIII. We must in all our Controversies try the Minus nota pro notiora & minus certa per certiora, & non contra: We must reduce uncertainties to certainties, and dark points, to clear ones; and not certainties to uncertainties. Seeing therefore it hath pleased God to leave his final dealing with Pagans (that hear not the Gospel,) Idiots and Infants, so uncertain and dark, the Controversy of Universal Redemption is not to be tried hereby, nor all the plain Scripture for it, to be reduced to the uncertainties herein.

Prop. XXVIII. We must in all our Controversies try the Minus nota pro notiora & minus certa per certiora, & non contra: We must reduce uncertainties to certainties, and dark points, to clear ones; and not certainties to uncertainties. Seeing therefore it hath pleased God to leave his final dealing with Pagans (that hear not the Gospel,) Ideots and Infants, so uncertain and dark, the Controversy of Universal Redemption is not to be tryed hereby, nor all the plain Scripture for it, to be reduced to the uncertainties herein.

So much to this Argument.

Let the Reader note, that since the writing of this, I am clearer than I was then in the assurance of this Truth, that the Covenant or Law of Grace, as it is the Rule of Duty and Retribution; was made with all Mankind in the first Edition, in Adam and Noah; and is not repealed to any that have not the second Edition (in the Gospel) but the rest of the World are still under it.