8. I argue from the special Expressions in Scripture: As the Death of Christ is set out there in words of universality, so it is set out there in words of special peculiarity. Christ died for the elect, Rom. 8. 33, 34. died for the children of God scattered abroad, Joh. 11. 52. gave himself for the Church, ⟨p. 343⟩Eph. 5. 25. gave himself for a peculiar people, Tit. 2. 14. laid down his life for the sheep, Joh. 10. 15. sanctified himself for the given ones, Joh. 17. 9. and 19. purchased the church with his own blood, Acts 20. 28. redeemed a people from among men, Rev. 14. 4. is a Jesus to his own people, Matth. 1. 21. and a saviour to his own body, Eph. 5. 23. And is there no Emphasis of Love? Are there no strains of free Grace? Is there no import of singular respect and affection in all these Expressions? We cannot say so without dispiriting the Scripture: Experience it self tells us, that all are not Christ's Elect, Children, Church, peculiar People, Sheep, given Ones, Body, & redeemed Ones from among men; wherefore when the Scripture saith that he died for these, it imports that he died for them in a peculiar manner. But you'll say, These Scriptures speak rather of the Application of Christ's Death, than the Impetration; and though the Impetration be equally for all, yet the Application is proper to Believers only. I answer, that if those Phrases, of dying for the elect or children of God, giving himself for a church or peculiar People, laying down his life for his sheep, purchasing the Church with his blood, and sanctifying himself for the given ones, do not ⟨p. 344⟩import Impetration, I know not what can import it. You will reply, that these Expressions import not Impetration as it is barely and nakedly in it self, but as it hath Application following upon it, and this is the Emphasis of them: But if these Expressions import Impetration with Application following upon it, whether doth that Application follow upon Impetration as a fruit thereof or not; if so, then Christ merited that Application for the Elect, and consequently died in a special manner for them; if not, then there is no Emphasis of special Love & Grace in all those expressions of his dying, giving himself, sanctifying himself and laying down his life for them: for there was no Merit in all this to procure the Application of his Death unto them.
8. I argue from the special Expressions in Scripture: As the Death of Christ is set out there in words of universality, so it is set out there in words of special peculiarity. Christ died for the elect, Rom. 8. 33, 34. died for the children of God scattered abroad, Joh. 11. 52. gave himself for the Church, ⟨p. 343⟩Eph. 5. 25. gave himself for a peculiar people, Tit. 2. 14. laid down his life for the sheep, Joh. 10. 15. sanctified himself for the given ones, Joh. 17. 9. and 19. purchased the church with his own blood, Acts 20. 28. redeemed a people from among men, Rev. 14. 4. is a Jesus to his own people, Matth. 1. 21. and a saviour to his own body, Eph. 5. 23. And is there no Emphasis of Love? Are there no strains of free Grace? Is there no import of singular respect and affection in all these Expressions? We cannot say so without dispiriting the Scripture: Experience it self tells us, that all are not Christ's Elect, Children, Church, peculiar People, Sheep, given Ones, Body, & redeemed Ones from among men; wherefore when the Scripture saith that he died for these, it imports that he died for them in a peculiar manner. But you'l say, These Scriptures speak rather of the Application of Christ's Death, than the Impetration; and though the Impetration be equally for all, yet the Application is proper to Believers only. I answer, that if those Phrases, of dying for the elect or children of God, giving himself for a church or peculiar People, laying down his life for his sheep, purchasing the Church with his blood, and sanctifying himself for the given ones, do not ⟨p. 344⟩import Impetration, I know not what can import it. You will reply, that these Expressions import not Impetration as it is barely and nakedly in it self, but as it hath Application following upon it, and this is the Emphasis of them: But if these Expressions import Impetration with Application following upon it, whether doth that Application follow upon Impetration as a fruit thereof or not; if so, then Christ merited that Application for the Elect, and consequently died in a special manner for them; if not, then there is no Emphasis of special Love & Grace in all those expressions of his dying, giving himself, sanctifying himself and laying down his life for them: for there was no Merit in all this to procure the Application of his Death unto them.
