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A45149	Peace at Pinners-Hall wish'd, and attempted in a pacifick paper touching the universality of redemption, the conditionality of the covenant of grace, and our freedom from the law of works upon occasion of a sermon ... / by a lover of truth and accommodation.	Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.	1692 (1692)	Wing H3700; ESTC R5169	19,418	34

offended and many others at what you delivered But there was nothing said by me to contradict that not a word about that matter That I will now say reserving my peculiar thoughts till by and by is this The death of Christ may be considered as it avails to the purchasing of Remission of sin and Salvation upon condition Or as it redounds to the procuring the condition for Remission and Salvation The death of Christ was for All or Christ died for All in the first sense In the second I will suppose with him only for his Sheep or the Elect. There is no doubt but God or Christ may maius minus amare Who is the Saviour of all men says the Scripture specially of those that believe That which moved this Gentleman I believe and others if there were any other besides them he moved was my speaking of a General Pardon for all the world purchased by Christ the Saviour of the World This seemed new to him at the hearing but by that time I came down from the Pulpit to the Vestry his own reason did prompt him being I will suppose a judicious but perhaps conceited man and whether so or no Citizen or Scholar I know not to understand no other by my General Pardon but that Christs Redemption is Vniversal which therefore he alledged as the point offended him In whom we have redemption through his blood even the Remission of our Sins says the Apostle in two places Redemption therefore and Pardon are of equal extent out of question I quoted that Text and this other God was in Christ reconciling the World unto Himself not imputing their Trespasses If this Gentlemans Conception be True That Christ hath purchased a pardon only for the Elect then the Apostle should not have said Reconciling the World but Reconciling the Elect to himself And when the Apostles says the World why should he be offended if I speak after the Apostle and not him Then came the Disciples and said to him Knowest thou not that some are offended But he answered Let them alone In such a Case as this I must say after my Saviour is any any man offended 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 let them look to it Sir you know there are two sorts of such as oppose Arminianism One that is the high sort and the other the moderate sort that are for the middle way in these Controversies and I confess my self one who have wrote several peices so called We that are of this sort do hold Election to be of particular persons not the choosing Believers to be saved with the Arminian and Lutherans but the choosing Persons to believe But Redemption we hold to be Vniversal The Scriptures say Christ died for all and for every man God so loved the World says Christ that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life By the World this Gentleman must understand the Elect but when by the words that whosoever believeth in him Christ plainly intimates that there are some of those God loves do believe and some not the World must be more than the Elect. Of the world of those God loves so as to give his Son to dye for them some believe in him and have everlasting life and some believe not and perish But of the Elect all believe and none perish One Text more I will quote Whom he did predestinate them he called Whom he called them he justified Whom he justified them he also glorified And why is Redemption here left out of the Apostolical Chain but because those he hath redeemed are all the world If the Doctrine that this Gentleman hath received were right the Apostle would have said Whom he did predestinate them he Redeemed I shall use no more Arguments or Scriptures when so many may be had but because this Gentleman was apt to think me singular in what I said it is fit he know that the Church of England and consequently our Holy Martyrs Cranmer Ridley Latimer Bradford does in her Catechism assert this Doctrine when the child is made to answer there Who hath redeemed me and all mankind The excellent Dr. Bishop Davenant hath wrote a Book on purpose De Morte Christi to maintain this point Archbishop V sher not to name any of our Eminent forraign Divines hath done the like Mr. Baxter that every foot is commending this book of Davenants so highly is one I won't scruple to say now he is dead no less profound himself and chose to go this way with them There is a distinction which this Gentleman hath not I suppose ever considered which may bring light and some Conviction to him A distinction of Christ in the Flesh and of Christ in the Spirit It is we know a Scripture distinction What Jesus Christ now hath done for us in the flesh 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he hath and must have done for All and the direct and immediate fruit of it belong to all for he took on him our flesh not as the flesh of the Elect but as the flesh of Mankind the nature of man not that of Angels What he does for us in the Spirit is peculiar to some and if it be saving to the Elect only The work of Christs redemption being by his Blood was wrought for us through his Flesh in which all mankind have Union with him and that is therefore Universal with the benefit that does directly and immediately issue from it the giving us Faith and Repentance is the work of Christ through the Spirit in which his Members only have Union with him and is particular to the Chosen To come up closer then to this person speak exactly if I can The death of Christ as it is Redemptory Propitiatory or Satisfactory for sin hath this fruit I speak of Pardon It is this is the direct immediate proper fruit of it I think I may say too the only such fruit of it for Pardon for all sin of Omission and Commission and consequently a disobligation from all punishment of Loss and Suffering is passively taken no less than a right to Impunity and Life and this is held forth upon condition of Faith and Repentance to all the World But the Condition it self performed by some is not the fruit of Christs death as a Propitiation though by way of Redundancy it comes by it If you ask me what Redundancy or How I will tell you though I can't Peremptorily as thus In all things whatsoever we pray for suppose it be for fair weather as we have Collects for such Occasions we ask it in Christs name for his sake or through his merits when yet it would be a strange speech to say Christ dyed that we may have fair weather And nevertheless there is some sense in which there is a Truth in this for if Christ had not attoned God by his satisfaction for sin there is no blessing could be obtained for or by any Now when there