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

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.

Only I must intreat 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.

The first Reason they give for proving that it is only the Elect that here are called the World, is drawn from the Love which is here said to have the World for its object, which cannot be common to all, but is proper to the Elect. This we deny, and they attempt to prove by these five Reasons.

1. Say they, it is the most transcendent and remarkable Love, and therefore proper to the Elect. I must desire the Reader to see this answered afterward in my answer to their interpretation of John.