Of Redemption. . Mr. W. Whateley, Mr. W. Fenner, and many excellent,Divines among us? Knowyou not that Dr. Trviffe himfelf, I believe twenty , if not forty times over in hisWorks, faith, That Chrift fo far diedfor all, as to pro- cure and give themPardon and Salvation, on condition they will repent and believe; buthe died moreover for theElea, to procure and give themFaith and Repentance alto? Know you not that Pareus in his Irenicon faith , That the Sins ofall the World lay on Chrift on the Crops, asthe caufeof his Death ? Knowyou not thatit is the common-. eft Doctrine of the Protegees, That Chrift diedfor all menas to the fufficiencyof hisdeath, butfor the Eleaonly as to the efficiency of Sal- vation? And what can you fay more or lefs than thofe few words figni fie ? Knowyou not that the Synodat Dort it felf faith, " That Chriffs " fatisfaaion is of infinite value and price, abundantly fufficient to ex- " piare the Sins of all the World 5 and that the Promífe ist,,That whofa- " ever believethfliall not perifb. And this is to be preachedto all. And, " that many yet repent not, believe not, but perifh, isnot throughany ç' defect or infufficiency.of Chrift's Sacrifice 5 but by their own default. Mufculus hiswords for Univerfal Redemption, are (Loc. Common. c. de Redemp. Gen. hum. p. (rnihi) 326. &c.) [Redemptio eft general. human : Genus humenuns Compleítitur non unant ant alteram Genteen, fed mundum univerfum, omnes viz. totius orbis nations, cun&tos homines a primo ufq; ad noviffmum. ----Generaliter eft omnium. ---Seimus non omnes Redemp- tionis haply fieriparticipes : Verum illorumperditio qui non jervantur, heed It Teems there were piquant impedit, *quominus Vniverfalis vocetur Redemptio - --Reflatio but few in eradmárdix's ilia telluris qua paffim omnia adgerminandum eflate folvuntur, rette days, who were of verfalis dicitur, etianf mate arbores- -nongerminent ---&c. , Anno ub - his mintecedencnaurai heoGeneralfis omniumfervornm liberatioerat, etiamfmulti infervitnte ma imhpotfibilityd of any Dries nente,c,gratiam liberations refpuebant. Ad eummodem habet & Redemptio Salvation, or any good a8 , which cometh nor iflagenerishuman----Qüod illarn homines reprobi deploratè impii non to pars; teeing (li. ;. accipiunt, neq;defetlufitGratia<Dei, neq; jaflum eft at ilia propterfflios e. a9p.735.)heanfwer- perditionis Gloriarh ac titulum VNI V ERSA LIS R E D EMP TI O- eth them that fay, [why mould the Opinion of d NIS amittat; campparata cunaiis, & omnes adMans vocentur, áLc:- -c few, trouble the Church, cairn cavebimusneCatholiceGratin Gloriam ob curemus & in arttumCon- and the fargreater num- f ber that is againi it ] ,, firingamus,velcum phanaticis hominibusneminem prorfus damnari dice- by"referring them to the man Bullin paucityof wife menand er -- ] g Believers , and paying `° A. You may fpare your labour of citing Bollinger and Mufculus, mat truth mutt be "or Melanchthon, or Bucer, orfuch moderatemen : But what are they preached for the few (Elea) that will receive at t0the rigid Calvini/lJ? -- it. Andy..737: tells us B. Calvin faith, in Rom. 5.18. [Communem omnitlrn gratiarn Tacit, how Ariliophaxes; con. quia omnibus ex o tta e : Non uod ad omnes extendatur reipfa : Nam&fi Crary tö the fix judges, p f fl q appointed by Ptolotny; paffus efi Chriffuspro peccatis trailsmandi atg5 omnibus Indifferenter Dei did adjudge the crown benignitateofertar, non tarnen omnes apprehendunt.] to that poet that thè And in I Cor. 8. 1 i. [ Dill'um memorabile quo docemur quam (Charm people liked worst. efe debeat nobisfratrum faint 5 nec omnium modo,fed fingulorum, quando prounoquoq; fùfus eft fanguis Christi.] Andin 2 Pet. 2. I. [Non immerito dicuntur Chriflum abnegare à quo redempti And in job. 2.2. He faith , That qui dicunt [Chriliam"fiefcienter pro toto mundoplumef/e, fedpro eleïtis tántuna efficaciter,] fay true, and that which commonlyobtaineth in theSchools, though he otherwife ex- pound that Text. " A. You need not citeCalvin : Grotius faid truly that he had his Lu- " cida intervene ; and though Amyraldus feek to defend him from felf " contradiction, Petavius calls him all to noughtfor it: But what can H 2 cc you':
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