QU1 TION Iili1. 333 Tametsi varüs modis ahnegatur Christus, coin tarnen hie; meo judicio, attingit Petrus, qui exprimitur apud Judam : nempe, dum gratia Dei in lasciviam convertitur. Redemit enim nos Christus, ut populum haberet segregatum ab omnibus mundi inquinamentis, addictum' sanctitati & innocentim. Qui igitur excnsso freno, in omnem licentiam se projiciunt, non immerito dicuntur Christum abnegare, a quo redempti sunt. That is, though , Christ is denied many ways, yet in my opinion Peter means the same thing here which Jude expresses, viz. that the grace of God is turned into wantonness : for Christ bath re- deemed us, that he might have a people free from all the defile- meats of the world, and devoted to holiness and innocence : Whosoever therefore shake off the yoke, and throw themselves into all licentiousness, are justly said to deny Christ, by whom they were redeemed. Jude, verse 4. " Turning the grace of our God into wan- tonness, and denying the only Lord God, and Jesus Christ our Lord. Christum vero abnegari intelligit, quum hi qui sanguine Mitts redempti fuerant, diabolo se rursus mancipantes, incompa- rabile íllud pretium quantum in se irritum faciunt. The apostle here means that Christ isdenied, when these whowere redeemed with his blood, again enslave themselves to the devil, and, as far as in them lies, make that incomparable price vain and inef- fectual. Thus it appears, that Calvin himself thought that Christ and his salvation are offered to all, and that in some sense be died for all. But I proceed to the last consideration. VI. That all mankind have some conditional salvation pro. vided for them, and some real grace and pardon offered to them by anew covenant, appears from this, that all men, both wicked and righteous, or just andunjust, shall be raised from the dead, to give an acount of things done in the body, whether good or evil, and to receive rewards or punishments in their body, as well as in their souls, according to their improvement or misim- provement of the dispensations under which they have lived. This seems to be the sense of several scriptures; John v. 28, ,29. 2 Cor. v. HE Now a resurrection is by no means provided by the law of innocency or the covenant of works : That only threatens death for sin, without the least hint or thought of the body's rising again. This doctrine of the resurrection therefore seems to be the effect of the overflowing merit of Christ, and perhaps that expression of the apostle may have some reference to it. 1 Cor. xv. 21, 22. Since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead ; for as in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive; though I confess it may be also construed and confined only to- the resurrection of the saints. But itis evident that Jesus Christ has this power to raise the dead, even sinners as well as saints, and authority to judge ail z 2
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