N00054:235
[The sincere convert, discovering the small number of true believers, and the great difficulty…[The sincere convert, discovering the small number of true beleevers, and the great difficulty…
[The sincere convert, discovering the small number of true believers, and the great difficulty of saving conversion. ...][The sincere convert, discovering the small number of true beleevers, and the great difficulty of saving conversion. ...]
printed by S. Green?, 1664
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
But thou wilt say,1 This means of redemption is only appointed for some, it is not intended for all, therefore not for me, therefore how can I reject Christ?
- 1Object.
It is true,1 Christ spent not his breath to pray for all, John 17.9. much less his blood for all; therefore he was never intended as a Redeemer of all: but that he ⟨p. 84⟩is not intended as a deliverer of thee.2 How doth this follow? How dost thou know this?
- 1Answ.
- 2The offer of Christ universal and why.
But secondly, I say though Christ be not intended for all, yet he is offered unto all, and therefore unto thee. And the ground is this chiefly.