A treatise of effectual calling and election. In XVI. sermons, on 2 Pet. 1.10…

Now to take off this; I shall answer it in showing you the true intent and scope of this Scripture. This universal phrase ⟨p. 222⟩of making alive, hath not reference to the saving of the soul, but to the resurrection of the body: And so the sense is this. That as in Adam, by virtue of his sin, every man came to die a natural death; So in Christ shall all be made alive; that is, so by Christs power shall every man rise from the dead. And if you ask how I make that appear to be the intendment of the Text. I answer, the words themselves will make it plain. Vers. 11. It is said, By man came death, by man also came the resurrection from the dead: that is, as by that man Adam came death, so by that man Christ shall come the resurrection from the dead: for as in Adam all died, &c. so that here you see, this is brought in as a proof of the 21. verse: Intimating, that this being made alive, hath no reference to the life of the soul, but only to the Resurrection of the body; that as Adam by his sin brought death to all men, so Christ by his power shall raise all men from the dead; every man in his own order. However, should this be granted, that this making alive should have reference to the life of the soul; it would bear no more but this, that all that are damned, are damned as in Adams loins; and all that are saved, shall be saved as in the loins of Jesus Christ. And so make nothing at all to prove this which they call universal election.

Now to take off this; I shall answer it in shewing you the true intent and scope of this Scripture. This universall phrase ⟨p. 222⟩of making alive, hath not reference to the saving of the soule, but to the resurrection of the body: And so the sence is this. That as in Adam, by vertue of his sinne, every man came to die a naturall death; So in Christ shall all be made alive; that is, so by Christs power shall every man rise from the dead. And if you aske how I make that appeare to be the intendment of the Text. I answer, the words themselves will make it plaine. Vers. 11. It is said, By man came death, by man also came the resurrection from the dead: that is, as by that man Adam came death, so by that man Christ shall come the resurrection from the dead: for as in Adam all died, &c. so that here you see, this is brought in as a proofe of the 21. verse: Intimating, that this being made alive, hath no reference to the life of the soule, but onely to the Resurrection of the body; that as Adam by his sinne brought death to all men, so Christ by his power shall raise all men from the dead; every man in his own order. However, should this be granted, that this making alive should have reference to the life of the soul; it would beare no more but this, that all that are damned, are damned as in Adams loynes; and all that are saved, shall be saved as in the loynes of Jesus Christ. And so make nothing at all to prove this which they call universall election.