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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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3. There are the Arminians and Remonstrants, men of greater Learning and more refined understandings then the former, and they hold, Christ died for all in respect of Impetration not Application; Christ died intending a Ransom for all if they believe, but who should believe and who not, doth not arise from Christs Death, but comes partly from grace partly from free-will; So that by this Position though Christ died, yet not one man might be saved; But this in the issue will be found derogatory to Christ, and leaveth the greatest weight of our salvation upon merit.
3. There are the Arminians and Remonstrants, men of greater Learning and more refined understandings then the former, and they hold, Christ died for all in respect of Impetration not Application; Christ died intending a Ransome for all if they beleeve, but who should beleeve and who not, doth not arise from Christs Death, but comes partly from grace partly from free-will; So that by this Position though Christ died, yet not one man might be saved; But this in the issue will be found derogatory to Christ, and leaveth the greatest weight of our salvation upon merit.
4. There are those that come nearer and are in the number of the Orthodox about Election, Conversion, Free-will, and Perseverance in grace; Only they hold Christs dying intentionally for all; But how they can reconcile their Opinion with their other Tenets, holding Christs universal love to all in his Death if they do believe, and yet at the same time a special love to some to make them believe, and not others, is judged very difficult, and also wholly unprofitable as to any duty or comfort, The Doctrine whereof they think the more to establish by this opinion.
4. There are those that come nearer and are in the number of the Orthodox about Election, Conversion, Free-will, and Perseverance in grace; Only they hold Christs dying intentionally for all; But how they can reconcile their Opinion with their other Tenents, holding Christs universal love to all in his Death if they do beleeve, and yet at the same time a special love to some to make them beleeve, and not others, is judged very difficult, and also wholly unprofitable as to any duty or comfort, The Doctrine whereof they think the more to establish by this opinion.