A27064:845
Universal redemption of mankind, by the Lord Jesus Christ stated and cleared by the…
Universal redemption of mankind, by the Lord Jesus Christ stated and cleared by the late learned Mr. Richard Barter [sic] ; whereunto is added a short account of Special redemption, by the same author.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1694
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. Jude expressly saith, They denied the Lord Jesus Christ.
2. Jude expresly saith, They denied the Lord Jesus Christ.
3. There have been few that have denied God among all Apostates in comparison of those that have denied Christ: Nay, it is a great doubt whether it can be proved of any, directly that were in those times.
4. Their Apostasy is described by turning from the holy Commandment delivered to them, which is called the way of Righteousness, and to their former Vomit (which must needs be the state they were in before they turned Christians) and to the mire, after they were washed; And this state of Apostasy is opposed to escaping the pollutions of the World, by the knowledge of the ⟨p. 316⟩Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, so that it is left past doubt that it is the Lord Jesus Christ that bought them whom they are said to deny. And Jude saith of them, that they are twice dead, plucked up by the roots, by which it appears that after their first death, they had received some kind of new Life by Christ.
4. Their Apostacy is described by turning from the holy Commandment delivered to them, which is called the way of Righteousness, and to their former Vomit (which must needs be the state they were in before they turned Christians) and to the mire, after they were washed; And this state of Apostacy is opposed to escaping the pollutions of the World, by the knowledge of the ⟨p. 316⟩Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, so that it is left past doubt that it is the Lord Jesus Christ that bought them whom they are said to deny. And Jude saith of them, that they are twice dead, plucked up by the roots, by which it appears that after their first death, they had received some kind of new Life by Christ.