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

That Christ came into the World with a certain intention to accomplish the glorifying of God as his end; is undoubted. For to say either that he undertook so great a work without an end, or that the glory of Gods grace and love was not that end, are both impious. And as certain is it that it was the glory of Gods grace in the certain Salvation of some men that was intended. For as there is no other way of this full glorification of Gods grace, manifested to us, but only by mans Salvation, so the Scripture most frequently tells us that this is the way, and this was God's design, and therefore Christ is styled the Saviour, which certainly implieth that he hath some infallibly to save, and that he came to seek and to save ⟨p. 494⟩that which was lost. And if it were not the Salvation of Determinate Persons that God intended to glorify himself in, then was it not in the Salvation of any man at all: for all Salvation is some ones Salvation. Accidents exist not without a Subject. And if it were not a certain obtaining of this end by this means that Christ intended, then Christ came upon an uncertain errand into the World, and intended not the certain attainment of Gods glory herein, which is unreasonable to imagine. So admirably was this design of Redemption laid, such a wondrous Mystery is it to Angels and Men, that it is apparent God intended infallibly the attaining of his blessed ends thereby. And so precious was the blood of Jesus Christ, that it is impious to imagine that he had no certain end in the shedding of it, or that it might have been lost as to the glory of Gods grace, and the Salvation of any persons, for any thing that he intended to the contrary.

That Christ came into the World with a certain intention to accomplish the glorifying of God as his end; is undoubted. For to say either that he undertook so great a work without an end, or that the glory of Gods grace and love was not that end, are both impious. And as certain is it that it was the glory of Gods grace in the certain Salvation of some men that was intended. For as there is no other way of this full glorification of Gods grace, manifested to us, but only by mans Salvation, so the Scripture most frequently tells us that this is the way, and this was God's design, and therefore Christ is stiled the Saviour, which certainly implyeth that he hath some infallibly to save, and that he came to seek and to save ⟨p. 494⟩