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[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.
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.
The universal offer of Christ ariseth not from Christs priestly office, immediately but from his Kingly Office, whereby the Father having given him all power and dominion in heaven and earth, he hereupon commands all men to stoop unto him, and likewise bids all his Disciples and all their successors to go and preach the Gospel to every creature under heaven, Mat. 28.18 19. For Christ doth not immediately offer himself unto all men as a Saviour,1