A careful and strict enquiry into the modern prevailing notions of that freedom of…

For if Men are made true Saints, no otherwise than as God makes 'em so, and distinguishes 'em from others, by an efficacious Power and Influence of his, that decides and fixes the Event; and God thus makes some Saints, and not others, on Design or Purpose, and (as has been now observed) no Designs of God are new; it follows, that God thus distinguished from others, all that ever become true Saints, by his eternal Design or Decree.— I might also show, how God's certain Foreknowledge must suppose an absolute Decree, and how such a Decree can be proved to a Demonstration from it: But that this Discourse mayn't be lengthened out too much, that must be omitted for the present.

For if Men are made true Saints, no otherwise than as God makes 'em so, and distinguishes 'em from others, by an efficacious Power and Influence of his, that decides and fixes the Event; and God thus makes some Saints, and not others, on Design or Purpose, and (as has been now observed) no Designs of God are new; it follows, that God thus distinguished from others, all that ever become true Saints, by his eternal Design or Decree.— I might also shew, how God's certain Foreknowledge must suppose an absolute Decree, and how such a Decree can be proved to a Demonstration from it: But that this Discourse mayn't be lengthen'd out too much, that must be omitted for the present.

From these Things it will inevitably follow, that however Christ in some Sense may be said to die for all, and to redeem all visible Christians, yea the whole World by his Death; yet there must be something particular in the Design of his Death, with Respect to such as He intended should actually be saved thereby. As appears by what has been now shown, God has the actual Salvation or Redemption of a certain Number in his proper absolute Design, and of a certain Number only; and therefore such a Design only can be prosecuted in any Thing God does, in order to the Salvation of Men. God pursues a proper Design of the Salvation of the Elect in giving Christ to die, and prosecutes such a Design with Respect to no other, most strictly speaking; for 'tis impossible, that God should prosecute any other Design than only such as He has: He certainly don't, in the highest Propriety and Strictness of Speech, pursue a Design that He has not.— And indeed such a Particularity and Limitation of Redemption will as infallibly follow from the Doctrine of God's Foreknowledge, as from that of the Decree. For 'tis as impossible, in Strictness of Speech, that God should prosecute a Design or Aim at a