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and what is peculiar Redemption if this be not? But you'll say these are said to be redeemed from among men, not because Christ specially died for them above others; but because these particularly applied his Death by Faith which others did not. I answer, that either this Application by Faith was merited by Christ's Death or not; if so, then Christ redeemed them in a special manner, because by his Death he impetrated Faith for them, which he did not for all; if not, then they were redeemed from among men by themselves and their own free Will, and not by Christ and his Death, which (I tremble to think) puts the lye upon the Church triumphant, who sing the new Song to the Lamb in these words; Thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every ⟨p. 325⟩kindred & tongue & people & nation, Rev. 5. 9. How can that Blood of Christ, which merited alike for all men, redeem one man from another? How can it redeem some from among men, unless it merit for them that Faith which is the grand distinction between man and man in the matter of Salvation? Christ [Greek or Hebrew], purchased the church with his blood, Acts 20. 28. and purchased it in a special manner: hence [Greek or Hebrew], a purchased people, is not a title common to all, but proper to the Church, 1 Pet. 2. 9. God's Children lay scattered up and down the wide World, and Christ died that he might gather them all together [Greek or Hebrew], into one, one Faith here and one Glory hereafter, Joh. 11. 52. If Christ had died so for all, all should have come into the same Unity. We find in Scripture many signal distinctions made among men; there are some on whom God will have mercy, and others whom he will harden, Rom. 9. 18. some written in the Lambs book of life, and others left out of it, Rev. 13. 8. some given unto Christ, Joh. 6. 36