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A63272	Scripture redemption, restrayned and limited, or, An antidote against universal redemption in ten reasons or arguments deduced from plain Scripture ... : Whereunto is added The saints declining state under gospel administrations ... / by William Troughton ...	Troughton, William, 1614?-1677?	1652 (1652)	Wing T2320; ESTC R33853	29,739	82

responsible substantial person that could pay him and hath paid him the utmost farthing Rom. 3.25.26 He hath set forth Christ to be a propitiation through faith in his Blood to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that he might be just He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins 1 Iohn 1.9 and to clense us from all unrighteousness Iob 33.24 And now the Lord saith deliver the prisoner from going down to the pit I have found a ransom for him But now as for the Reprobates they go down to hell and suffer everlasting punishment for their sins without any injustice and therefore Christ did not dy and satisfie for their sins and so consequently not for every man and woman in the world These following Scriptures do fully declare the efficacie of Christ's death the vertue of his blood shed and the perfect satisfaction exhibited thereby to God the Father in the behalf of all those for whom the Lord Jesus suffered the death of the Cross He that spared not his own Son Rom. 8.32 34. but delivered him up for us all How shall he not with him also freely give us all things Who is he that condemneth It is Christ that dyed When he had by himself purged our sins Heb. 1.3 he sate down on the right hand of the Majesly on high Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people Dan. 9.24 and upon thy holy City to finish the Transgression and to make an end of sins and to make reconciliation for iniquity and to bring in everlasting righteousness When Jesus had received the vinegar Iohn 19.31 he said It is finished In whom we have Redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sins Eph. 1 7. according to the riches of his grace God hath not appointed us to wrath 2 Thess 5.9 10. but to obtain salvation by Christ who dyed for us that whether we wake or sleep we should live together with him He hath made him to be sin for us 2 Cor. 5. ult who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him He needed not to offer himself often Heb. 9.25 26. but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself By the which Will we are sanctified Heb. 10.10 14. through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified Vnto him that loved us Rev. 1.5 and washed us from our sins in his own blood The blood of Jesus Christ clenseth us from all sin 1 Ioh. 1.7 But God commendeth his love towards us that while we were yet sinners Christ dyed for us Much more then being justified by his blood we shall be saved from wrath through him Rom. 5.8 9 10. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son much more being reconciled we shall be saved by his life But he was wounded for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities Isa 53.5 the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed If the blood of Buls Heb. 9.13 14. and of Goats and the ashes of an Heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh See Lev. 4.20 26. Lev. 17 11. How much more shall the blood of Christ who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot or blemish to God Purge your Consciences from dead works Gal. 3.13 14. to serve the living God Christ hath redeemed us from the Curse of the Law that the blessing of Abraham might come upon us I beseech thee Reader examine these Scriptures seriously and thou wilt see that the Redemption of every one by Christ's blood and the damnation of thousands are inconsistent and cannot stand together Let the word of the great God by which we must all be judged prevail with you which is all I desire ARGUMENT VII MY seventh Argument or Reason is taken from John 10.14 15. I am the good shepherd and know my sheep and am known of mine I lay down my life for my sheep They for whom Christ laid down life are his sheep But all and every man and woman in the world are not the sheep of Christ and therefore he laid not down his life for all and every man and woman in the world This Scripture if there were no other in the book of God is so plain and clear and full against Vniversal Redemption that he that runs may read it Object Oh but it is not said that he laid down his life for his sheep only Answ 1. Nor is it said that we are justified by faith only that we are compleat and accepted in Christ only that the sulness of the Godhead dwels in Christ only Yet who but Papists will say that we are not justified by faith only in that sense wherein the Apostle speaks of Justification by faith who dares say that we are compleat or that the fulness of the Godhead dwes in any other besides the Lord Jesul Neither is it said Husbands Love your wives only yet surely it is not fit that they should love other women with the same love which particularly belongs to their wives But secondly 2. Is there not a plain and manifest division separation and contradiction throughout the Scripture and this whole chapter between sheep and goats elect and reprobate the two seeds the Church and the world Now all and every man are not elected all and every man are not the sheep of Christ all and every man are not of the Church of Christ The separation of the goats and sheep which will be at the great day of the Lord Mat. 25.31 32 33. will make it manifest that all are not of the sheep of Christ Besides the properties of the sheep of Christ are here described They know his voice and follow him and a stranger they will not follow John 10. verse 4. for they know not the voice of strangers They are such as are known of Christ i. e. beloved of him They go in and out verse 14. and find pasture for their souls to feed upon They are such as are given by the Father to Christ who came to give them spiritual life yea that they might have it more abundantly verse 10. Are these properties and qualifications found in every man and woman in the world Doth every man and woman hear and obey the voice of Christ Is every one known and beloved of Christ How then comes it to pass that he will say to some in the last day Depart from me Mat. 7.23 I know you not Doth Christ give spiritual life Yea doth he give it abundantly to every man and woman Why then doth he say You believe not Iohn 10. verse 36. because ye are not of my sheep Doth every man and woman

just and righteous let God be true though every man be a lyar And as it reflects upon the justice of God so it impeacheth his highest love shall God so love every man as to give his Sonnor them And Christ so love every man as to lay down his life for them for herein God manifests and commends his love Rom. 5.8 1 Iohn 4.9 10. not that we first loved him but he first loved us and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins and yet withhold from them faith repentance and newness of heart without which they cannot be saved Hath God loved every man so as to give his Son to the death of the Cross for them and hath the Lord Jesus sweat dropps and clodds of blood for their sins treading the wine press of the wrath of God and crying out in the agony of his soul my God my God why hast thou forsaken me Rev. 19.15 Mat. 27.46 and yet shall most of them for whom he suffered so much rot and perish in final unbeleef and impenitency certainly this doth exceedingly derogate from the power of divine love and grace Secondly the doctrine of Universal Redemption puts men upon loose and ungrounded contradistrnctions that they may vindicate and maintain it and what is this else but to take the Lord's name in vain and to dally with his Word and Truth Some say that Christ died not in the stead of all but for the good of all a Non loco vice omnium sed bono tantum Remonst at the Hague confer That Christ impetrated and merited life for all and every individual man but applies it only to Believers whereas the Scriptures which I formerly cited do evince and prove that these two though they ought to be distinguished yet they are inseparable acts of Christ's mediatorship and are extended to the same persons Those for whom he impetrated life shall have it applyed to them Some say * Camero Amerald Teslad that Christ hath obtained by his death remission of all sins against the Covenant of works for every man but pardon of sins against the Gospel or new Covenant only for the elect 1 John 1.7 whereas Christ's blood clensech them from all sin for whom it is shed forasmuch as through Gods grace and the Spirit 's operation the blood of Christ hath an effectual influence upon all their hearts and consciences and conversations to purge and pacifie and clense them And lastly some learned men who are more sober and moderate then those whom I oppose do say but without ground from Scripture as I humbly conceive that Christ dyed for every man and woman in the world in respect of the sufficiency of his merit but not in respect of efficacy That we should extend the sufficiency and merit of Christ's death and bloodshed beyond the purpose decree and intention of the Father and the Son for my part I cannot see any clear ground 't is true the death and bloodshed of Christ may be said to be sufficient for every man in respect of the intrinsecal vertue thereof it being the blood of God Acts 20.28 the blood of that person who is the infinite God But I conceive that it cannot properly be said to be a sufficient ransom for every man and why but because it is not properly a ransom or price paid for every man nor never was so intended So then the sufficiency and efficacy of Christ's death are to be joyntly limitted to them for whom he dyed and payed the price of redemption nor did Christ shed one drop or dram of blood in vain it was by the counsel and appointment of God that Christ should lay down his life only for them whom the Father gave him and none of them that shall be lost I remember the popish Schoolmen have such a distinction of grace sufficient Hales 3. Summ. 9.69 Thom. m. 1 2 9 109. and grace effectual God say they affords grace sufficient to every one but not grace effectual Sufficient grace as they hold is that by which a man may be saved if he will not be wanting to himself effectual grace is that which saves a man indeed But this is groundless 2 Cor. 12.9 Where God tells Paul that his grace is sufficient for him This sufficiency is not to be abstracted and separated from the efficacy of grace Thirdly let me further add that this opinion of Vniversal Redemption renders Christ but half a Saviour an imperfect Saviour and his blood shed ineffectual as if he did only thereby put all men into a saveable condition and man himself must strike the greatest stroke and actually save his own soul It is a doctrine that puts men upon that gress absurdity that Christ died for thousands shed his blood for milliors of souls that never heard the voice of the Gospel which is the word of faith Rom. 10.14 15. How shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without a Preacher and how shall they preach except they be sent And will it not introduce that other gross and carnal conceit that in the end all and every one shall be saved the falien Angels as well as reprobate men as if there could be any deliverance out of hell If we hold an Vnive sal Redemption and Reconciliation I can see no reason to the contrary but that an universal salvation may be thence gathered by genuine and necessary consequence Fourthly Vniversal Redemption as it is by many held forth and maintained bolsters up people in a profane course or at the best in a general dead saith or rather a sancie insteed of faith may not a profane wretch reason thus There be those who say that Christ shed his blood for every man in the world well I am a man and therefore Christ shed his blood for me Now the Scripture is clear and full for this namely that Redemption by Christ's blood and remission of sins go together Those whom Christ redeemed by his blood shall not have their sins imputed to them and where there is non-imputation of sin Eph. 1.7 2 Cor. 5.19 Ps 32.2 there is also imputation of Christ's righteousness blessedness and salvation Blessed is the man to whom the Lord doth not impute Iniquity If it be so may this wicked man say I will go on and enjoy my lusts according to this doctrine I shall not perish if Christ dyed for me and if he dyed for every man then he dyed for me And as this opinion may have yea I fear it hath such an operation upon many poor souls so it may be a means to bring others to despair and to make desparate and sad conclusions upon themselves in reference to their eternal estate to hold that thousands shall be damned that Christ dyed for may not Satan easily prevail upon an awakened soul by this temptation suited to the doctrine of the general Ransome that there is no more