Reflections on Cap. 6. of Christ's dying for all, &c.

Reflections on Cap. 6. of Christ's dying for all, &c.

In this Chapter he proceeds more particularly to urge and maintain the Doctrine of Universal Redemption, and we might dismiss him for his Answer to the writings of the Anti-Remonstrants, but because many may not be advantaged with those discourses, we shall make a few brief Remarks upon his Absurdities.

In this Chapter he proceeds more particularly to urge and maintain the Doctrine of Ʋniversal Redemption, and we might dismiss him for his Answer to the writitings of the Anti-Remonstrants, but because many may not be advantaged with those discourses, we shall make a few brief Remarks upon his Absurdities.

Sect. 1. His first and main plea is from the words of Scripture, which express it in Universal terms, viz, All, all men, every man, the world, the whole world: (as for that of the Body, Eph. 5.23. Paul himself there interprets it of the Church, and its strange that the World and the Church should be of equal extent) some of ours (whom he calls the Adversaries of Truth) have answered, (though it is not our whole Answer) that by All, is not meant all particulars, (i. e. Individuals) but some of all sorts, all the Elect. His Reply is, that the word [All] must needs be as full and universal with respect to Christ's death and the benefit of it, as it is with respect to Adam's Fall: and who denies it? But it is not so in his sense, except he will plead ⟨p. 85⟩for universal Salvation, as well as Redemption, else the benefit is not parallel to the damage; and so he indeed seems to plead, by Citing 1. Tim. 4.10. for the proof of his Assertion; but yet this he afterwards denies. We are here to consider, that Adam & Christ are in Scripture made parallel in many Respects: as Adam is a common Head, so is Christ: hence, as Adam hath a natural seed, so hath Christ a spiritual seed: as Adam ruined all his seed, so Christ Redeemed all His: as Adam's seed are called the world, because they comprise all the men and women coming into the world by natural Generation; so Christ's Seed are called the world, because they comprise all the men and women that belong to the world to come. But then we must remember, that Christ's Seed are a number selected out of the other; and therefore, though they are all because He loseth none of His Elect, yet not all the Individuals of Adam's posterity; for there are they of whom Christ saith, They are none of my sheep. Nor doth he interpret but pervert that in,