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

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.

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 applyed 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 connexion 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 connexion with the consequent of the Salvation of the Elect.