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

Though, according to the Order of our Disputations, I must directly Affirm or Deny; and indeed may safely Affirm as the Question is thus generally put, yet that it may be understood in what sense I affirm it, it is necessary that those ambiguities be removed, which, in some of the terms do cloud the sense, and that the nature of the Subject be somewhat opened. And indeed, it is a clear Explication that is most necessary in this Controversy; that we may not (as is here usual) fight in the dark, and trouble our selves with unuseful Argumentations, on an ill stated question, and in dubious terms; not knowing each others mind, if well our own.

THough, according to the Order of our Disputations, I must directly Affirm or Deny; and indeed may safely Affirm as the Question is thus generally put, yet that it may be understood in what sense I affirm it, it is necessary that those ambiguities be removed, which, in some of the terms do cloud the sense, and that the nature of the Subject be somewhat opened. And indeed, it is a clear Explication that is most necessary in this Controversie; that we may not (as is here usual) fight in the dark, and trouble our selves with unuseful Argumentations, on an ill stated question, and in dubious terms; not knowing each others mind, if well our own.

Who is meant by [Christ] we are all agreed: and who by [Men:] and that therefore we extend not the Question to Angels; though that with some be a great dispute, whether Christ dyed not in some ⟨p. 2⟩sort for them. By his [Dying] we mean, His whole Humiliation, of which his Death is so principal a part; that as the Scripture takes most notice of it, so must we. Amesius thinketh that the Assumption of the Human Nature, is no part of this Humiliation; his reason is, because it was an Act of the Sole Deity: And the Godhead cannot suffer. But I think we need not be of that Opinion; For, 1. The Holy Ghost seems to me to contradict it, making it part of Christs Humiliation, To make himself of no Reputation and take upon him the form of a Servant, and be made in the likeness of Men, when he was in the form of God, and equal with God,