A27064:848
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.
Lastly, Note, that here are many benefits which they received, which could not have befallen them, but through the Death of Christ; They could no other way have been washed, and have escaped the worlds pollutions, and have known the way of Righteousness, &c. yea Jude saith, They turn the Grace of God into Lasciviousness, therefore it was a sin against Grace: and all Grace is by the blood of Christ: yea it seems they had themselves some Grace, that is, (Mercy contrary to merit and tending to a recovery) which they so turned into Lasciviousness. And Peter in the next chapter shows that their Apostasy lay in a not-believing Christs second coming, because of his seeming delay, and therefore they gave themselves up to their Lusts, and said mockingly, Where is the promise of his coming? so that it is both evident that they were purchased by Christ, and that it is Christ that bought them whom they are said to deny.
Lastly, Note, that here are many benefits which they received, which could not have befallen them, but through the Death of Christ; They could no other way have been washed, and have escaped the worlds pollutions, and have known the way of Righteousness, &c. yea Jude saith, They turn the Grace of God into Lasciviousness, therefore it was a sin against Grace: and all Grace is by the blood of Christ: yea it seems they had themselves some Grace, that is, (Mercy contrary to merit and tending to a recovery) which they so turned into Lasciviousness. And Peter in the next chapter shews that their Apostacy lay in a not-believing Christs second coming, because of his seeming delay, and therefore they gave themselves up to their Lusts, and said mockingly, Where is the promise of his coming? so that it is both evident that they were purchased by Christ, and that it is Christ that bought them whom they are said to deny.
Yet as plain as the Holy Ghost hath here spoken, what industry is used to raise a Dust, and compel these words to receive an alien sense.