CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

Lastly, No wonder if the Scripture useth such an indefinite expression, because we see it doth in other things also, when yet there is an acknowledged necessity by all that it might be restrained, and speaking of Christ it's said, All flesh shall see the Salvation of God, Luk. 3.6. Now it's confirmed by experience that there were many in Christs time who yet did not see him either bodily or spiritually: Thus Act. 2. I will pour my Spirit upon all flesh, and their Sons and Daughters shall prophesy, when yet all know they were but some that had those extraordinary gifts, especially that famous Promise, That all Nations of the earth should be blessed in Abraham is clear for our purpose; For the Apostle Gal. 3. doth plainly limit it to the spiritual Seed of Abraham.

Lastly, No wonder if the Scripture useth such an indefinite expression, because we see it doth in other things also, when yet there is an acknowledged necessity by all that it might be restrained, and speaking of Christ it's said, All flesh shall see the Salvation of God, Luk. 3.6. Now it's confirmed by experience that there were many in Christs time who yet did not see him either bodily or spiritually: Thus Act. 2. I will powr my Spirit upon all flesh, and their Sons and Daughters shall prophesie, when yet all know they were but some that had those extraordinary gifts, especially that famous Promise, That all Nations of the earth should be blessed in Abraham is clear for our purpose; For the Apostle Gal. 3. doth plainly limit it to the spirituall Seed of Abraham.

Thus you see that it's no new thing to use expressions of universality, when yet there is a necessity of restraining their sense; We might also add those places,