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

As for the first, I hope few Christians will deny it, if any do I prove it thus. 1. If Christ have not as Redeemer a right to govern all, then he may not make Universal Laws for the Government of all, But Christ hath made such Universal Laws, Ergo, &c. His Laws command all Men every where to repent, and all that hear the Gospel to believe: And promise and threaten accordingly.

Obj. The Indians never heard his Laws.

Ans. 1. That restriction is ex parte promulgantis for want of publication, but not ex parte legem ferentis for want of Enacting a Universal Law; The Law excludes none in the tenor of it but ⟨p. 193⟩commands all to believe without exception. 2. The Officers or Heralds of Christ have authority to publish it to all the World. 3. Christ hath more Laws then the written or published Gospel in fullness. The dispensation of all things by, providential disposal, are Christs Law, that is, they are the signs and discoveries of mercy and Mans duty: They show the World 1. That they are not left under that helpless, remediless case that they were in by the desert of their own Sin: For the rigid Law of works never allowed to them that had violated it, and were cursed by it, so great mercies as all Men now enjoy, and daily find flowing in upon them â Deo Miserecorde, and that to such ends as their repentance and recovery. 2. These mercies and other works of Christ, do show the World the duty of repenting: Paul saith that the mercies of God lead them to repentance. Now repentance is not here taken for hellish despairing repentance, as the Text plainly shows: But for that which hath a tendency to recovery, and is joined with such a hope as excludeth utter despair, and may encourage to the use of means as means and that which thus revealeth Christs mercy and Mans duty and means, is sure Christs Law.