SS8 Arguments Univerfa! Redemp-tion. how vaft the difference is ,for fuch as w ere glorified , were glorified upon the account of Chritis Death, which was to be , in the time appointed & defigned by Father & Son. When one pron;ifeth a fumme for redeeming of fo many [laves, & the fumme , according to mutual agreement is to be payed at, fuch a day , the (laves may be prefently relieved , in contemplation of the price , which is accepted , & is to be bayed hereafter at the time appointed But when one cometh to lay down Ranfome- money, he cannot befaid to lay it downe for fuch as are dead & that he knoweth to be dead many. years ago, & fo uncapable of Redemption. Further ( ;o.) If Chritt died for all , then he intended -to die for all .then the Father alfo intended , that he should die for all ; then he intended that it should be a Redemption for all, & that thereby all should be Redeemed : for towhatendelfe should Chrift die & redeem , if not that fuch , as he died for & Redeemed , be Redeemed & Delivered ? Or to what other end should God intended that Chrift should die for all, than to the ends mentioned in- Scripture , of which we have fpoken ? And how can we fay , that God did intend the Redemption of all , when all are not ac`iatally Redeemed ? Are his intentions fo fallible, and frutlrable ? If it be Paid , that he Intended on- ly a Poffible Salvation , and not A,Efual. I Anf. The Scripture fpeaketh no fuch thing as we have feen : And how unfuteable is it to the wifdom of God,. to fend his Son , a.ivally to die and bear the curie , and only intend there- by a Poflible Redemption , which might never prove A6fual to any one foul? If.it be laid , That he.intended an Actual Redemption but Conditionally. I Anfrrer. Redemption upon a Conk ition is but a Conditional Redemption,& that is but a Potential , Pofíìbie Redemption , unlefl'e you fay that the con - dit-ion_is allo purchafed : and then , as to God, it is an Abfolute Redemption, & intended as filch: loth it fuite the wifdom,of God, to intend Redem- ption to all , and not intend alto the Condition , by which alone it muff be- come Actual , & which he alone can work, but will not ? Mull we thus afcri. be fuch intentions to God, as muff hang upon mans will , & be fubordinate thereunto ? Or if he fee, that the Condition will never be performed , how can we think, that he intendeth any thing upon a Condition , that shall new ver be ? But enough of this, at prefent. Moreover (31.) Thisdo&rine ofUniverfal Redemption is derogatory to the folide confotation of the Redeemed , & \Veakeneth the grounds of their- tong ;, and therefore it is not to be admitted. This Argument is fully & foli- dely profecuted and vindicated from what can be allaiged againft it , by the learned & folide divine Mr. Durham , in his Comment on the R evelation pag, 304. & 3óS._ And to him shall I referre the Reader : only I shall crave lea - ve to adde this: That by our Adverfaries grounds, the long of the Saved shall not run, as it doth (Revel. S.: 9, ao. But rather thus, V( ,' /ve Paved our felves, out of every kinred, & tongue; &people, & nati . "s& have made, our felves unto God, Kings & I riefts : For whereas Chrift by his blood Re- cdeemedall .of..every kinred, and tongue, and people, & nation, and not forne only out of them ; we our felves have, by our own free good will, ma- de a difference betwixt our felves ,. and the rat ; and we are no more behol den
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