Gospel reconciliation, or, Christ's trumpet of peace to the world

THE next point being the seventh propounded in the first chapter is: That God was Reconciling the [World] to himself. So the text Saith; and so the Point is. That God hath been reconciling the [World] to himself. This which we have in the text here it is the very same in effect with that we have in John. 3.16. So God loved the [World] that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believed in him should not perish but have Everlasting life.

THE next point being the seventh propounded in the first chapter is: That God was Reconcileng the [World] to himselfe. So the text Saith; and so the Point is. That God hath been reconciling the [World] to himselfe. This which we have in the text heer it is the very same in effect with that we have in John. 3.16. So God loved the [World] that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever beleeved in him should not perish but have Everlasting life.

The world you will say; how is that? did God reconcile all the world, to himself?

The world you wil say; how is that? did God reconcile al the world, to himselfe?

No, we are therefore to understand this saying here as an indefinite Proposition, and not as if it were an universal Proposition; and the right understanding of this difference between an universal, and an indefinite proposition is of great use to us, both in this, and many other points of divinity. An Universal Proposition, is that, that speaketh so of the general, as it includes every particular under it, An indefinite Proposition, doth but speak of the general, and not include every particular under it, but only many. As thus. If one should say, that such a man teacheth all the Children in such a Town; we do not mean that there is no particular Child that is not taught, for there are infants there;