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7iat

redemption

ly

Chrifiz

is

not vniuer/'all.'

283.

l

fore-

doubtleffe

he will

not

lofe his

labour, nor

(pill his

blood

in

vaine

;

he will

not

willingly

let

any

perifh, whom

he

bath

purchafed

at

fo

high

a

rate,

and redeemed

with

fo

deare

a

price

:

he is

allo

fo

powerfull

that nothing

fhall be able

to

pull

them out

of

his

hand,

as

bimfelle affirmeth,

Ioh.io.zS;

Iohn

io.Zó.

and

fo wife

that

he

would

not

]bed

his

blood,

for thofe

wh6

he would

not

faue.

And

who

can

imagine

that

God

who

is

mofi iufi,will impute thofe

f

nnes

vnto

thee for

which

Chrifi

bath fuffered,inflia death

on thee for

whom Chrifi

died,and

require'

that

debt

againe which

is

alreadiediicharged

?Or

ho can

imagine

that God,who

is

imniutable,fiiould-

Phew

filch

inconfiancie

as

to

fend his

forme

into

theWorld, to fuf-

fer death

for

the

redemption

ofthofe whom

-he

now

will

not

faue

;

for

if

hee

would, who

could

refifi his

will or vvithfiand

his

power

?

And therefore

if

he

hath

redeemed

all,fiirely bee

will

face

all,and confequcntiy thee

among{:

the

refs,

though

thou

line

as

thou

lift and follow

the

lufis

of

thine own heart

:

for thy

fins

and

vnbeliefe

cannot

make

his

purpofe

voide,nor

annihilate

the worke

of

thy

redemption;

nay

the more

thy

finnes

abound,

the more

his grace

will

abound

alfo.

For the

anfvering

of

which

temptation,wee

are

to know,

§.Set.l.2

that

vniuerfall

redemption which

is

the

ground

and

founda-

The

n

ft

tre

to

tion

thereof;

is

an

idle dreame

ofmans braine,

which cannot

tb°

f

rmcr

be

iufiified

by

the

word

of

God

the touchfione

of

all

trueth;

trmptai"

.

neither hath

our Sauiour Chrifi redeemed any

other, than

thofe

whom

hee

efeáIually

calleth

v.iito

the facing

know-

ledge

oftheir

rcdemption,indueth

with true faith

and

vnfai-

ned

repentance,iufiifieth,faná ifieth,and

lafily

faueth,

if

wee

refpeél the

purpofe

ofGod,

and the will

of

our bleffed

Sa-

uiour; although

indccde the

price hee

gaue for our redetnp

tion,was offutficient value

for

the

homes

ofall the

World,i it

were

applied.byaliuclyfaith.

Butbecaufe this

doarine

bath

many.eneniies,

it

is

not cif-

TV/jinni-oaf

ficient to propound it

vnleffe

I proue

it :and

therefore

I will

seioureat-

eagrd

aaiir1

Phew firfi

by teflimonies

of

Scriptures,

and

after by

firong

ILr

el,fe

I

re

reafons,that

our Sauiour

Chriui

bath died for,&

by his

death

demption._

redeemed,thofe

only

whom

bee

induéth with

true faith and

-

ynfained repentance,

and

not

for

all

the world,

as

they

iina-

gine,.