the Question for how many Christ dyed and information of the sense and in such manner is 1 Tim. 1.6 Hebr. 2.9 propounded and so not to be limited by places in another manner propounded CHAP. V. Of the difference of the extent and force of the same Words when they are of men and by men and when of God and by God also when the Opposition is between men and men and when between GOD and MEN. THE words in this businesse that any difference is made about is the words All men and Every man and The World Now this is a thing so commonly knowne that the same word in divers sentences may differ much in signification and extent and yet by the Sentence in which the word is the signification and extent thereof cleerly import and discover it self That little need there is to say much hereof And as it were ungodly and unequall to compare God and man to make them alike and equall Isai 40.13 14 18. Psal 113.4 5. So it would be neere ungodlinesse and very unequall and rash to compare the Thoughts Words and Workes of God with the thoughts words and workes of men to make them equall and alike in extent and force Isai 55.8 9. So it is as easy for men to understand a great difference in the extent of the same word spoken of and by God and spoken of and by men and when the opposition is between God and men and when between men and men For if one speake of a houshold or family and say This man governes all even a child of twelve yeeres old of a reasonable understanding will understand The word All to extend but to the Family And if one say of a Corporation This man governes All hee will understand the word All to extend to the Corporation And if one say The King governes All He will understand the word All to extend but to the Dominion whereof he is King But if one say God governes All hee will understand the word All to extend to the whole world and All in it as Psal 103.19 And so if one say of a mans worke his fame is all the world over it will be understood to be far and neer in many Countries and a great way But if one say of the workes of God Their line is gone through all the earth and their words to the ends of the world It will be understood in the largest sense as Psal 19.4 And so it would be found either ignorance or rashnesse or consciousnesse of the weaknesse of a mans cause that he would prove thereby to goe about to compare and make of like large extent the word World where it is said There went out a Decree from Caesar Augustus that all the World should be taxed Luke 2.1 And where it is said The Worlds were made by Christ and hee is the Propitiation for the sinnes of the whole World Hebr. 1.2 Joh. 1.3 4. 1 Joh. 2.2 Much more to goe about to make of like large extent the words All men and the World when spoken by envious men that thought a few oâ— many to follow Christ Joh. 3.26 and 11.48 and 12.19 and when spoken by the Spirit of God of the workes of God and Christ 2 Cor. 5.19 1 Jo. 2.2 Much worse still when the extent of the All that came to Christ Luk. 15.1 is brought to expound and limitt The extent of the All Christ dyed for 2 Cor. 5.14 15. and that hee bids looke to him and bee saved Isaiah 45.22 or the every man of whom men spake Acts 2.8 with the every man of whom the holy Spirit speaketh Joh. 1.9 seeing the one is a speech of and by men and the other of and by God Besides the words all men and every man are evident not to be of like large extent in every place and yet of the largest extent the place where it is used doth import and the sentence in which it is used importing the sense 1. Sometime the words All men and EVERY MAN evidently signifying All and Every one of Mankind without exception so as none can deny it As God made all Nations of men of one blood Acts 17.26 He knoweth the hearts of all men Acts 1.24 death passed upon all men for that all have sinned Rom. 5.12 By the offence of One judgement came upon All Men to condemnation verse 18. All are gone out of the way Rom. 3.12 All have sinned verse 23. Wee must All appeare before the Judgement-seat of CHRIST 2 Cor. 5.10 That Every one c. Againe He is the Saviour of all men specially of Those that beleeve 1 Tim. 4.10 Hee giveth to all men liberally Jam. 1.5 At I live saith the LORD Every knee shall bow to mee and every tongue shall confesse to God c. Isa 45.23 Rom. 14.11 Phil. 2.10 11. All Nations that God hath made shall come and worship before him Psal 86.9 with divers like places where all cannot be meant but of some or some of all sorts but of All men that God made 2. Sometime in Scripture the word All Men is found to mean one and another rich and poore Beleevers and Unbeleevers All without exclusion of any or restraint to any one or some of all sorts as Though all men should be offended Matth. 26.33 I say unto All watch Matth. 13.37 Except yee repent yee shall all perish Luke 13.3.5 Provide things honest in the sight of All men Rom. 12.17 Render therefore to all their dues Rom. 13.7 Let your moderation of minde be knowne to All men Phil. 4.5 shewing all meeknesse to all men Tit. 3.2 If it be possible as much as in you lyeth live peaceably with all men Rom. 12.18 so Hebr. 12.14 and such like places not admitting restraint 3. Sometime All is found so used in Scripture so as it cannot be meant of Gods People good Men Saints hearers of the Word weake Brethren newly converted Beleevers or the Church of God at all much lesse of Gods Elect and chosen onely as All mâ—n 〈◊〉 not faith 2 Thess 3.2 Woe unto you when all men speak well of you Luke 6.26 Shee made all Nations drinke of the wine of the wrath of her fornications Revel 14.8 yet here all Unbeleevers are meant So that the Scripture speaking on divers occasions to divers purposes and concerning divers Subjects and in divers manners doth use the words All men and Every man in larger or scanter sense And yet alwayes in the largest sense the words with the scope of the place the Circumstances in it the preceeding and following words the businesse reated of the common accepted sense in view of those of and by and to whom they are spoken and between whom the opposition is will beare Whether for All upright 1 Cor. 4.5 for all that are or seem Beleevers 1 Cor. 7.7 for All spirituall men 1 Cor. 12.7 11. or for all evill and bad men 2 Thess 2.3 or for All both Elect or Reprobate Joh. 5.28 And All that come
THE VNIVERSALLITY OF GOD'S FREE-GRACE IN CHRIST TO MANKIND PROCLAIMED and DISPLAYED From 1 Tim. 2.6 and Hebr. 2.9 according to their genuine sense THAT ALL MIGHT BE COMFORTED Encouraged every one confirmed and assured of the Propitiation and Death of Christ for the whole Race of Mankind and so for himself in particular Through urgent importunity Written by Thomas Moore Joh. 3.14 15 16. And as Moses lifted up the Serpent in the Wildernesse Even so must the Sonne of Man be lifted up that whosoever beleeveth in him should not perish but have Everlasting life Heb. 2.9 But we see JESUS who was made a little lower then the Angels for the suffering of Death crowned with glory and honour that he by the grace of God should taste Death for Every Man LONDON Printed in the Yeer of the Patience and Forbearance of our Lord. 1646. TO THE CHRISTIAN READER Christian Reader IF wee beleeve the great love of GOD to Mankind fallen into sinne and enmity against him manifested in the gift of his Son to be the Saviour of the World who by the grace of God tasted death for Every man And became the Propitiation for the sinnes of the whole world and the fruits hereof so great for all men that they extend as large as the heaven and the earth bearing forth their Testimony with more brightnesse then the Sunne and working on every mans sense to lead to Repentance Psal 19.1 7. Rom. 10.18 Acts 14.17 Rom. 2.4 and so precious in those to whom through the Gospel it spiritually appeareth That it converteth and bringeth in to Christ and also teacheth to deny ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present life c. Tit. 3.4.5 and 2.11 12 13. Then I hope thou wilt not count it strange if some be heartily grieved when in a Church where this great Love is testified And set forth in the authorized Doctrine thereof many professing themselves zealous to see them 1. So denying and blaspheming this great love of God to mankind in Scripture affirmed Joh. 3.16 17. 1 Joh. 4.14 as if God ever and from all eternity hated the greatest number of men so as they neither are beholden to him for any good will or love nor have any doore of Repentance or meanes of life opened and afforded by him in truth for them 2. So contradicting and blaspheming the plain sayings of the Gospel of Christ as that he gave himself a Ransome for All Men 1 Tim. 2.6 and by the grace of God tasted death for Every Man Heb. 2.9 as to affirme plainly and directly contrary as That Jesus Christ did not die or shâ—d his blood for every man 3. Calling the Expression in the Doctrin of the Church of England that saith Jesus Christ God the Sonne hath Redemed me and all mankind a flat lye affirming the truth to be hee hath redeemed none but the Elect. 4. Running into so many long agoe condemned evill and Papisticall wayes and arguings to maintaine their Contradictions of Truth Yea I suppose it would be grievous to thee also to perceive the same Neither I am perswaded wilt thou count it strange that this Love of God beleeved should constraine the Beleever in love to beare forth the testimony thereof and also maintaine it against opposition yea and when to the godly and sober-minded the same is plainly testifyed and the testimony subscribed and yet by others in heat and rashnes traduced Then on the importune request of many to permit it to more open view that it may be rightly knowne and so tryed and either approved or the errours found therein discovered and confuted which done in love and by faire dealing with the Scripture will be lovingly accepted though the fury of such as have no way but by incensing Authority with false suggestions and evill Reports however garnish'd to overcome those they oppose cannot be justified as Christian Wherefore Christian and Juditious Reader if thou conceivest me to erre I hope thy love will leade thee in a Christian way to shew it me by the Scripture which I will thankfully imbrace and if thou wilt endeavour the same I then entreat but these foure things of thee which I know the grace of Christ beleeved and heeded will teach thee not to denie mee And they are these First that thou answer to the businesse about the matter affirmed as namely about the Redemption Reconciliation and Propitiation wrought by Christ in his owne body for men distinct from that he by his Spirit in application thereof worketh in men and so according to the distinction the Scripture maketh and â—â—ntioned in the five first Chapters of this ensuing Treatise Secondly that thou adde not to that I have affirmed of the Death of Christ for All Men such things as I neither affirme nor by any necessary or reasonable consequence can be said to be included in or to arise from my Affirmation as some have done As that Christ should die for all men alike or that all men shall be Eternally saved or that all or any man hath by Nature Free-will to that which is spiritually good or that all that beleeve Christ dyed for All Men shall be saved all which the Truth affirmed and the Treatise every where condemneth Thirdly that in answering thou be pleased to use spiritual weapons and right Arguing from plain places of Scripture compared with other like places and so forbeaâ— those carnall and Popish wayes and manner of Reasonnings faulted by so many Worthies in this Church As 1. Pretending insufficiency in the Scripture to be the determiner of all matters of Faith but that how plainly soever the Scripture affirmes yet the matter is but sub judice without some other determination 2. Pretending darknesse in the Scripture yea in Fundamentalls and that of themselves however compared with other-like places they are full of obscurity 3. Use of carnall Reasons to frame absurdities to follow if the truth the plain sayings of Scripture import be received and professed 4. Imposing strange senses on plaine sayings of Scripture without proof 5. Devising wayes to maintaine such senses that they might appeare as if they were proved by Scripture as to instance the most common of these wayes 1. To restraine a generall sense to be meant only of a particular as the Papists have done in some places to maintaine the supremacy of the Pope and the Socinians or new Arrians have restrained those generall words of all things and the world made by Christ to be meant only of a new Creation And all things to be only all the Elect And the world to mean the Church or a World of Beleevers thereby to denie the being of Christ before he took flesh and so his being God also 2. To avoid places speaking of the same businesse to invent reasons against the true sense and frame another sense out of Places treating of another business as some have done to deny the Resurrection and others to deny their Brethren
of Adam by Propagation 1 Cor. 15.22 Now the Words All and Every man in 1 Tim. 2.4.6 and Hebr. 2.9 being spoke by the Spirit of GOD and of the Workes of God for men and the opposition being between God and men and but one man the Man CHRIST JESUS between who is God and Man and is expresly said To give himself a Ransome for all men The larged sense must of necessity be taken and no more is required or affirmed in the Proposition So then the sense of the 1 Tim. 2.6 and Hebr. 2.9 and of the Proposition affirmed is to be understood of 1. The Redemption wrought by Christ in his owne body and the Common salvation he there-through worketh And 2. So of his Death as it is set forth for Propitiation And 3. So mentioned by it self without the other ends annexed too with it And 4. Propounded as the foundation of Repentance towards God and Faith towards our Lord JESUS CHRIST and this in the Third Person generally in generall words And vet to prevent all mistakes and cavills this is to be further added That the Death of JESUS CHRIST as the Ransome and Propitiation for All and Every Man is to be understood of the Death of JESUS CHRIST as hee â—â—risen and ascended and at his Fathers right hand filled in mans Nature with the holy Ghost and Authority Acts 17.31 1 Cor. 15.3 4. So that his Death Resurrection and Ascention with some fruit of all of them together are herein comprehended and to be heeded Acts 4.10 11 12. with Rom. 14.9 12. 1. He dyed to make Propitiation for the Sinnes of All men 1 Joh. 2.2 Hebr. 2.9 and to seal the new Testament for his called and chosen ones and to purge and cleanse them with the aplication of his blood Hebr. 9 14 15. Ephes 5.25 26. 2. He rose from the death justifyed and to receive justification in the room and for All men that he might have Power to bestow it Rom. 3.22 24. and 5.18 and 4.25 And to bestow it on and give new and living hope to his called and chosen ones Rom. 3.22 25 26. and 5.1 1 Pet. 1.3 3. He Ascended and sate downe on the right hand of God to be the Lord of All. Acts 2.34 36. and 10.36 Rom. 14.9 And to be the Head Husband High-Priest Prophet and King of his called and chosen ones Hebr. 3.1 6. and 5.6 and 6. and 7. and 8. 4. He is filled with Spirit to send forth to the sonnes of men to the rebellious and to enlighten every man that commeth into the world that the Lord God might dwell among them Psal 68.18 Joh. 1.9 and 16.8 And to witnesse Son-ship and lead his Called and Chosen ones into all truth Rom. 8.14.16 Joh. 16.13 14. And thus the Death Resurrection and Ascension of JESUS CHRIST is 1. To all men a ground of Instruction to convince them of sin and of Christ his right of Lordship over them Joh. 16.8 11. Rom. 14.9.12 And of alurement to come in and be reconciled to God by Christ 2 Cor. 5.19 20. and of hope that in comming in and yeelding to his Call they should have life Joh. 3.14 15. 2. To his Called and Chosen ones that beleeve on him a ground for Confirmation of their Faith of their Justification of their Preservation in Grace of their enjoyment of the Inheritance Rom. 5. and 8 32. c. of which is not here to be understood in in that affirmed for all men But of the former that hope set forth for All according to that Christ hath done for all and so I suppose all that will may understand the sense That wee may have the Question rightly stated about the death of JESUS CHRIST in what sense he dyed for all men CHAP. VI. An Assay for right stating the Question THIS Question being diversly stated by many I thinke it meet to mention the same briefly that it may appear the better how it is stated here 1. Some say JESUS CHRIS dyed for all his Elect and onely for those that are elect to Sonne-ship and eternall Inheritance and for no other Not for all mâ—n every man or any man but the Elect. This is flat against and openly contradictory to the affirmation of the Scripture and is that opposed in the whole drift of this Tract 2. Some say JESUS CHRIST dyed for all men alike wrought redemption for them all alike with like love and like intention and for like ends But as this hath no ground in the Scripture so it is already shewne confuted by it 3. Some say JESUS CHRIST dyed for every man in case every man beleeve on him and for no man to Salvation in case every man persist in unbeleife But this is no Scripture sense and imperfect to make any sense to goe on with at all for Christ hath dyed and given himself a Kansome to God for all men whether any man beleeve it or no and hath by his death so purchased all men of God that hee is become their Lord and shall judge them though they should persist in unbeliefe neither shall they all so persist Rom. 14.9 12. 2 Pet. 2.1 Isai 53.11 4. Some say JESUS CHRIST dyed in some sort for all men and â—o as all doe receive some good thereby he dyed for all as a Lord but he did not die for all as a Surety to pay the price for and become the Propitiation for the sinnes of all This sense answers not the Question which is not about what good all doe receive from or by the death of Christ but what good hee hath thereby wrought and procured for all men that he might have pouâ—â— and freedome to bestow according to his will that is one with the Fathers yet is the Affirmative in this expressed sense true though it be not the whole truth of this businesse But the negative not onely denieth the remainder of truth but denies and unsaith again even that which was affirmed for if he did not pay the price and purchase them how according to the Gospel is he become their Lord Rom. 14.9 2 Pet. 2.1 And if he be not the Propitiation for their sinnes how shall he judge them according to the Gospel and by it 2 Cor. 2.10 Rom. 2.16 Joh. 12.47 48. and if no price be paid nor Propitiation made for them but that what ever reprievall patience or mercies they receive they will but aggravate their condemnation no doore of Repentance and life being opened in truth for them to which this patience and bounty might leade them what good doe they then receive or rather be they not necessarily more miserable Rom. 2.4 5. 5. Some say JESUS CHRIST so dyed for all that his death is sufficient for all and applicable to all but not so as he hath indeed ransomed all men and become the propitiation for their sinnes The Affirmative part of this sense is very good and will stand well But the Negative both crosseth plain Testimonies of Scripture and