A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

Secondly, Christs intention to die for all men and for the whole world, that is for all sorts of sinners in the world, and so for sinners of my kind, may every poor sinner in particular think with himself. Here is an universal encouragement unto all from a true and real ground, and drawn from the will and intention, as well as from the power and all-sufficiency of Christ, which I shall make good from Scripture, for he hath died for all sorts of persons, there is no condition excluded. For this I take the 1 Tim: 2. 6. Who gave himself a ransom for all; so ver. 4. who will have all men to be saved. The meaning must needs be of all sorts, not of all persons. For besides that the Apostles all can be no more then Christs many. Mat. 20. 28. the Son of man came to give his life a ransom for many, this very Text hath abundance of light to give it self, if we look to the context either before or behind; before there is an exhortation to pray for all men, vers. 1. which although the Arminians make an argument that all men is meant of all persons and not only of all sorts, both in that verse and vers: 4. & 6. ⟨p. 281⟩because say they we ought to pray for all men universally pro singulis generū, & not only for all sorts; yet tis indeed an argument for the contrary. For to pray for all men without exception of any person is not commanded, but we find the contrary commanded. Jeremiah was forbidden to pray or make intercession for the obstinate, incorrigible Jews, Jer: 7. 16. & 11. 14. & 14. 11. God would not have Samuel to mourn for Saul, after he was rejected of the Lord, 1 Sam: 16. 1. and we ought not to pray for such as sin unto death, i. e. the sin of blasphemy against the holy Ghost, 1 Jo: 5. 16. Paul is so far from praying for Alexander the copper-smith, that he imprecates the vengeance of God upon him, 2 Tim: 4. 14. we may not pray for the Pope who is the great Antichrist and son of perdition; neither may we pray for, but against Babylon, especially after the people of God are out of her. We are bidden pray for our enemies, but not for the malicious incorrigible enemies of Christ. Wherefore when the Apostle bids us pray for all men. His meaning is, that we should exclude no degree nor kind of •en great o• small, Jew or Gentile, bound or free, &c.

Secondly, Christs intention to die for all men and for the whole world, that is for all sorts of sinners in the world, and so for sinners of my kind, may every poor sinner in particular think with himself. Here is an universall encouragement unto all from a true and real ground, and drawn from the will and intention, as well as from the power and alsufficiency of Christ, which I shall make good from Scripture, for he hath died for all sorts of persons, there is no condition excluded. For this I take the 1 Tim: 2. 6. Who gave himself a ransome for all; so ver. 4. who will have all men to be saved. The meaning must needs be of all sorts, not of all persons. For besides that the Apostles all can be no more then Christs many.