.- 7hät 73edemptrota byChrifl anot vrtíuerfall. 287 redeemed are iufiified,and alto heires ofeternall blefTednes; for Wedare thore whofe inipitte is fordruen,4ndrrhoferune is Pfai r..; Li. coxt.red, as it is Pfal.3 2.1. Seeing alto Chrifl whoharh redee- med"vs, is f+rongerthanSatan and all thepoi ;. erofhell, and therefore all their fpirituall enemies conioyned together, cannot pluck thofe whom he hath redeemedout ofhis hand violently and againll his will, neither can wee with anypro- bable thew ofreafon imagine that hee would willingly lofe thofe l,s'hornhe hath redeemed with the inef{imable price of hitnfelfe,neither will it flandwith the iuf{ice ofGod to im- pute the fins ofany-to their condemnation, for which Chrift hathfully fatisfred, nor to exa6t that debt againe whichhee bathpaid ::and therefore ifChrif} had died for all,God in his iuf{ice could not chufe but faue all : andChrif{ might well fay tohis father, To what purpofe haue I died if thou de firoyefl thole whom I haue faued?what profit is in myblood, ifthoucondemnefl thofewhom Ihaue redeemed ? Laftly, ifhee died and byhis death redeemedall; thenal- fo hediedfor and redeemed the Pagans,TurkesAtheif{s and Epicures, who were out of the Church and couenant of grace; and fo iufiifcation,redemption and faluation fhuld be out oftheChurch, and be extended to thole whomGodne- uerreceiued into his couenant; which is quite contrarie to the wholecourfe ofthe fcriptures,where it is faid,that al who are faued arealto added vnto the Church,A6i.2.47.and that Chrifl bathgiuenhimflreonlyfarhit Church, Eph. 5.2s.Yea if 2.47. Chrifl died for all, and byhis death redeemed thetn,then it EP"" 5'11'. muff neceffarily follow that bee had redeemed euen thofe damned fouleswho were inhell before his comming, which is mofl abfurd to bee imagined; for ifthey were redeemed, howdid they againe fall into condemnation,feeingtheybe- ingonce become Chrifts canneuer perifh,neither is any able topull themoutofhishands,asitislohao.a8. But againfi this it is obie&ed, that in the fcriptures Chrifi .Sr .4:- is faid, to haue died and to haue giuen himfelfe a rauíome 4 for all men. r .Tim.2.6, cvho az e himfelfea ran ome foralrren. '0`r m;arFtNlr f f f f chri(i tsfi -d-"/ AndFleb.2.9. heis faid tohaue t47ed'deathforallmen ; and hale dùdfor i,Ioh,2,2.hee is faid tobee a reconfliationforthefinnes of the all rnen. whole.
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