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

3. I come next to the Third and last Reason, which is given to show that Christ bought ⟨p. 326⟩not these men: The foresaid Author saith Neither is it more certain that the Apostle speaketh of the purchase of the Wolves and Hypocrites, in respect of the reality of the purchase, and not rather in respect of that estimation which others had of them, and by reason of their outward seeming profession ought to have had, and of the profession that themselves made to be purchased by him, &c.] This is the great answer, which is the last refuge: It was [Greek or Hebrew], and not [Greek or Hebrew]. I am ashamed unfeignedly to remember the time when I took up with this interpretation my self, and had the face to maintain it.

3. I come next to the Third and last Reason, which is given to shew that Christ bought ⟨p. 326⟩not these men: The foresaid Author saith Neither is it more certain that the Apostle speaketh of the purchase of the Wolves and Hypocrites, in respect of the reality of the purchase, and not rather in respect of that estimation which others had of them, and by reason of their outward seeming profession ought to have had, and of the profession that themselves made to be purchased by him, &c.] This is the great answer, which is the last refuge: It was 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, and not 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. I am ashamed unfeignedly to remember the time when I took up with this interpretation my self, and had the face to maintain it.

Consid. 1. It was no act of theirs which the Apostle mentions, (which profession, though dissembled, might have warranted him to ascribe to them, as he may call those Holy, that seem to be Holy by profession:) but it is an Act of Christ (and his passion) long ago performed: He bought them.