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2. Some run into another Extreme, and make Faith nothing else, but a Persuasion or Assurance that Christ died for me in particular, or that he is ⟨p. 121⟩mine. That which moves some thus to think, is the universal Redemption by the Death of Christ; they know no Ground or Bottom for Faith but this Proposition, Christ died for thee, and hence makes Redemption universal: And hence the Arminians boast so much of their Quod unusquisque tenatur credere, &c. But,

2. Some run into another Extream, and make Faith nothing else, but a Perswasion or Assurance that Christ died for me in particular, or that he is ⟨p. 121⟩mine. That which moves some thus to think, is the universal Redemption by the Death of Christ; they know no Ground or Bottom for Faith but this Proposition, Christ died for thee, and hence makes Redemption universal: And hence the Arminians boast so much of their Quod unusquisque tenatur credere, &c. But,

1. This is a false Bottom, for Christ hath not died for all, because he hath not prayed for all, John 17.2.

2. This is a sandy Bottom and Foundation, which when a Christian rests upon, it shakes under him, when the Soul shall think, tho' Christ hath died for me, yet no more for me, than for Judas, or Thousands of Reprobates now in Hell. Indeed after Faith, a Christian is bound to believe it, as Paul did,