The Lord Jesus hath a room in each Covenant, of Works, and of Grace:1 In the Covenant of Works as a sufferer for the breach of it. Its said by Learned Davenantius, one is said truly and properly to die for another, who dies to procure his good▪ though the other by his own fault, get no good of his dying for him. But there is not such a Question as this, whether one may truly and properly die for another, but whether Christ in the sense of the Holy Ghost died verè & propriè, truly and properly, the just for the unjust, to procure good to the unjust, and yet these unjust may eternally perish and reap no good by Christs dying, through their unbelief? 2. Will it not follow that Christ 1. died truly ⟨p. 237⟩and properly for all, and yet, non obstante morte Christi, notwithstanding of the Lords dying, all the world may eternally perish, as say Arminians and Socinians. 3. It shall follow that the immediate, yet the complete effect of Christs death is not actual, but possible saving of all. And Christ hath verè & propriè, truly and properly died for them. Nor 4. is it enough to say that Christ had a special intention in dying for the Elect to give them faith, but he had no such intention in dying for the Reprobate. But hence it follows that Christ as properly and truly died for the Reprobate as for the Elect, as touching the nature and intention of his dying; and that he offered as sufficient a ransom for the one as for the other, and that is a mere possible ransom, but as concerning the intention to apply effectually, or no effectual intention to apply the death, there's the difference. But 1. we ask for Scripture, where it is said CHRIST dying as dying for the world,2 had these two contrary intentions. The Scripture saith, Christ died to gather his scattered children, Joh. 11.5. to bring to God, 1 Pet. 3.18. these for whom he died, that they might have life, Joh. 10.11. live to God, 2 Cor. 5.15. die to sin, 1 Pet. 2.24. be redeemed from their vain conversation, 1 Pet. 1.18. be delivered from this present evil world, Gal. 1.4. Here is our effectual intention; where is there a place for his dying with no effectual intention to bring any to God? and yet he dyed for all good and evil, to make salvation possible, say they.
THe Lord Jesus hath a roome in each Covenant, of Works, and of Grace:1 In the Covenant of Works as a sufferer for the breach of it. Its said by Learned Davenantius, one is said truely and properly to die for another, who dies to procure his good▪ though the other by his own fault, get no good of his dying for him. But there is not such a Question as this, whether one may truely and properly die for another, but whether Christ in the sense of the Holy Ghost died verè & propriè, truely and properly, the just for the unjust, to procure good to the unjust, and yet these unjust may eternally perish and reap no good by Christs dying, through their unbeleef? 2. Will it not follow that Christ 1. died truely ⟨p. 237⟩and properly for all, and yet, non obstante morte Christi, notwithstanding of the Lords dying, all the world may eternally perish, as say Arminians and Socinians. 3. It shall follow that the immediate, yet the compleat effect of Christs death is not actuall, but possible saving of all. And Christ hath verè & propriè, truelie and properly died for them. Nor 4. is it enough to say that Christ had a speciall intention in dying for the Elect to give them faith, but he had no such intention in dying for the Reprobate. But hence it follows that Christ as properly and truely died for the Reprobate as for the Elect, as touching the nature and intention of his dying; and that he offered as sufficient a ransome for the one as for the other, and that is a meer possible ransome, but as concerning the intention to apply effectually, or no effectuall intention to apply the death, there's the difference. But 1. we aske for Scripture, where it is said CHRIST dying as dying for the world,2 had these two contrair intentions. The Scripture saith, Christ died to gather his scattered children, Joh. 11.5. to bring to God, 1 Pet. 3.18. these for whom he died, that they might have life, Joh. 10.11. live to God, 2 Cor. 5.15. die to sin, 1 Pet. 2.24. be redeemed from their vain conversation,
- 1Davenantus de morte Christi, c. 4. pag. 48. Ex solâ vi horum verborum: Christus pro omnibus mortuus est non potest inferri Christum pro omnibus ita mortuum esse ut absolute decreverit hac sua morte omnium salutem efficaciter & insallibiliter operari: quia satis vere & proprie pro aliquo mori is dicatur qui bono alterius procurando mo•itur, quamvis ille alter suo vitio nihil commodi inde percipiat. Christ cannot be said to die for all, if these all may eternally perish.
- 2No Scripture warranteth us to say that Christ died for all with one intention to apply his death to the elect, and with another intention to apply no death at all to the reprobate.
