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

Before I come to their last Reason, I will give you the Judgment of some Orthodox Interpreters on this Text, that you may see whether it be the Mediator Christ, or the Father only, whom they are here said to deny; and whether it be meant of proper Redeeming, or some mercy which they had without Christ's dying for them.

1. And the first shall be Calvin, whom I hope in this Controversy none will except against, his words are these, in loc. [Etiam Dominum qui illos redemit. Tame•si variis modis abnegatur Christus, eum tamen hic meo judicio attingit Petrus, qui extrimitur apud Judam; nempe dum Gratia D•i in l•sciviam convertitur. Redemit enim nos Christus, ut populum haberet segregatum ab omnibus mundi inquinamentis, addictum sanctitati & innocentiae. Qui igitur excusso fraeno in omnem licentiam se projiciunt, non immeritò dicuntur, Christum abnegare a quo Redempti sunt.] But because Calvin judgeth (truly) that these are the same that are spoken of in Jude 4. Let us see what he saith of that Text also, lest you think he overshot himself here through inadvertency. His words are these; [Christum vero abnegari intelligit, Quum hi qui sanguine ipsius Red•mpti fuerant, diabolo see rursus mancipantes, incomparali•e illud pretium, quantum in se irritum faciunt.

1. And the first shall be Calvin, whom I hope in this Controversie none will except against, his words are these, in loc. [Etiam Dominum qui illos redemit. Tame•si variis modis abnegatur Christus, eum tamen hic meo judicio attingit Petrus, qui extrimitur apud Judam; nempe dum Gratia D•i in l•sciviam convertitur. Redemit enim nos Christus, ut populum haberet segregatum ab omnibus mundi inquinamentis, addictum sanctitati & innocentiae. Qui igitur excusso fraeno in omnem licentiam se projiciunt, non immeritò dicuntur, Christum abnegare a quo Redempti sunt.] But because Calvin judgeth (truly) that these are the same that are spoken of in