The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace

For they are not obliged to believe upon one sentence, and if you Preach the Gospel to the Nation, God ••th some chosen ones there, and it is no more a Pagan Nation. […] Yo• are to say to any one by your way (thou art obliged •o believe that Christ satisfied for all thy sins, and for the sins of the whole world) but that is a lie which you teach Pagans as a principle of the Gospel. 3. Its false that I may say and Preach truly such a thing to every Nation, and all in it. 4. Nor is it physically possible that Christians can so speak to all and every old and young. Also all is indeed referred to the free-will▪ except the Authors say that God doth insuperably determine the will of the Elect to believe, and the places speak of th• efficacious redemption of the Elect only:¹ But so God had two intentions in Christs dying, one general to render all mankind saveable; another special, actually to save the Elect. But 1. who can believe multiplied intentions in God of half redemption from wrath, and of whole redemption from both vain conversation and ••ath upon their bare word, when the Scripture saith Christ in suffering without the Camp▪ suffered for the world of Jew and Gentiles, that he might sanctify them he died for? 2. What warrant to separate these two conjoined by God, to wit, that CHRIST should bear on the Cross the sins of reprobate, and not intend that they should die to sin, and be redeemed, but not from all iniquity: be loved and washen, and not made Kings and Priests to God? That Christ should be wounded for the transgressions of many, and yet the chastisement of his peace not be upon them? 3. The dying for all and ⟨p. 186⟩every one cannot be conditional, in so far as the condition is referred to dying, to wit, if they believe; for so believing must go before dying, either really, which is manifestly false: for multitudes for whom Christ dyed had neither being nor believing, when he dyed for them;²