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

10. We find Scripture telling us, how hardly flesh and blood will digest the Doctrine of predestination, and how they will quarrel at Gods choosing one and not another, and how God stops their mouths with an answer drawn from his absolute Lordship and Propriety over them, as the Potter over the clay, he may make them vessels of honour or dishonour, and do with his own as he list. But we never find any murmurings of Flesh and Blood that Christ should die for one man and not for another: Nor do we find God ever acknowledging any such thing much less giving them a reason from his Absolute Dominion.

10. We find Scripture telling us, how hardly flesh and blood will digest the Doctrine of predestination, and how they will quarrel at Gods chosing one and not another, and how God stops their mouths with an answer drawn from his absolute Lordship and Propriety over them, as the Potter over the clay, he may make them vessels of honour or dishonour, and do with his own as he list. But we never find any murmurrings of Flesh and Blood that Christ should die for one man and not for another: Nor do we find God ever acknowledging any such thing much less giving them a reason from his Absolute Dominion.

11. Besides we find God useth to give the reason why men be not saved by Christ, from their own wilfulness and rebellious rejecting him. This is the cause given why his blood is not applied to them. But when it comes matter of Election or Non-Election, the Answer is, Oh Man! Who art thou that disputest against God? So that all these things laid together and considered, it seems to me clear, that Redemption is a Universal Cause, as Creation is, and not a thing proper to the Elect only, as Gods Election is; and that on this Universal Ground of Redemption, Christ is entitled the Redeemer of the World, and hath founded his jus Dominii & imperii, his right of Propriety and Government over all (even those That will not that he should Reign over them,) as God was called the Creator of the World because he Created them, and on ⟨p. 282⟩that ground did found his first Title of Dominion and Empire over all the World. And that Redemption hath no more an infallible connection to the Salvation of all the Redeemed as subsequent, than Creation hath with the Salvation of all the Created: But both Creation and Redemption as they are the means between Election and its End, have an infallible connection with the consequent of the Salvation of the Elect.