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

3. The next words show what [World] it is that is here spoken of, viz. That which compriseth men that believe, and so are not Condemned; and those that believe not (which Consideration is consequential, and not antecedent to Christ's dying for them) and so are Condemned already, because they have not believed, &c. v. 18. They that will affirm a greater restriction in the sense of the word, must prove ⟨p. 293⟩it. For (though I have proved here the larger sense) yet indeed it belongs to them to prove their assertion, who recede from the commoner and more extensive sense. I shall briefly examine what they say to that end.

3. The next words shew what [World] it is that is here spoken of, viz. That which comprizeth men that believe, and so are not Condemned; and those that believe not (which Consideration is consequential, and not antecedent to Christ's dying for them) and so are Condemned already, because they have not believed, &c. v. 18. They that will affirm a greater restriction in the sense of the word, must prove ⟨p. 293⟩it. For (though I have proved here the larger sense) yet indeed it belongs to them to prove their assertion, who recede from the commoner and more extensive sense. I shall briefly examine what they say to that end.

Only I must entreat the Reader, that if they compare my Writings with any Book which contains the Reasons which I confute, that you would not expect that I should take any notice of any of those strangely-confident, Juvenile, Triumphant Expressions which some do abound with, but that I draw out only the pith of their Arguments, and set Reason against Reason, and let the heaps of Worldly Rhetorical Gloryings alone: Much more must I expect that you will not take me to be engaged to defend any Arminian misinterpretations and weaknesses, and to confute what any man saith against them, but only that which seems of force against the interpretations or assertions that I my self do maintain.