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CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St. John, or, Christs prayer before his passion explicated, and both practically and polemically improved by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656
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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.
6. It cannot be denied but that the Scripture when it mentioneth the Subject for whom Christ died, speaks indefinitely of all; As all died by Adam, 1so all shall be made alive, Behold the Lamb that taketh away the sins of the world, 1 Joh. 2. He is a propitiation not for our sins only but the sins of the whole world; Thus in many other places the Scripture doth expressly affirm such an universality: Therefore the Question is, Whether this must be understood so generally as that it shall reach to all, and every singular Man and Nation, and that in all Ages, or only indefinitely, he died for all sorts; So that now no Nation is excluded nor particular person, as it was among the Jews, and certainly unless we will make Scripture both ro contradict it self and experience; We must take all those phrases indefinitely and not universally.
6. It cannot be denied but that the Scripture when it mentioneth the Subject for whom Christ died, speaks indefinitely of all; As all died by Adam, 1so all shall be made alive, Behold the Lamb that taketh away the sins of the world, 1 Joh. 2. He is a propitiation not for our sinnes only but the sinnes of the whole world; Thus in many other places the Scripture doth expresly affirm such an universality: Therefore the Question is, Whether this must be understood so generally as that it shall reach to all, and every singular Man and Nation, and that in all Ages, or only indefinitely, he died for all sorts; So that now no Nation is excluded nor particular person, as it was among the Jews, and certainly unlesse we will make Scripture both ro contradict it self and experience; We must take all those phrases indefinitely and not universally.
- 1VI. That the Scripture speaketh indefinitely of All.