applyed to elect or beleever only then the sence of that Text cannot be read any otherwise than thus That God so loved the world of the elect or beleevers only that he gave his only begotten Sonne that whosoever of the world of the elect or beleevers doe beleeve in him shall not perish But considering that the Scripture no where saith the world of elect nor the world of beleevers I leave the grosse absurdity that is in that sence unto any rationall mans censure hereby also appears evidently the wrong that some men have done to that Text where it is said that Christ dyed for our sins according to the Scripture 1 Cor. 15.3 by their applying that expression our sinnes as if meant of the sinnes of beleevers only notwithstanding that the Scripture further saith that Christ tasted death for every man Heb. 2.9 and that Christ dyed for no fewer than all 2 Cor. 5.15 And that thereby he is the propitiation for the sinnes of the whole world 1 John 2.2 Also observe that this expression ye are bought with a price 1 Cor. 6.20 and the 7.13 is by some men applyed to the elect or beleevers only when as in truth those words doe appertaine to all men for the price paid was for redemption or ransome and the price to effect both of them was paid downe in full by Christs death 1 Pet. 3.18 1 Cor. 15.3 and therewith by his pretious blood shed 1 Pet. 1.19 Now beloved as the price paid hath reference to his death for redemption there it is said he tasted death for every man Heb 2.9 and as the price paid hath reference to his blood-shed you know that without shedding of blood there is no remission Heb. 9.22 And accordingly the atonement or propitiation was with our Types the Jewes made by the shedding of the blood of beasts the benefit of those extended though to all as in their Jubilee yet but to all the Jewes and proselytes only But herein we may behold the excellency of the price paid by Christs pretious blood-shed transcendently surmounting for by that propitiation made or price paid for atonement Christ is affirmed to be the pacifying propitiation for no fewer than the sins of the whole world as hath been in other causes said that is for the transgressions against the first Testament Heb. 9.15 Rom. 5.20 which were the sins accounted against the Father as in my next Distinction And againe as the price paid hath reference to Christ as a ransomer who alwaies pays the full value appointed for the ransomed or in bondaged then behold it is said he gave himselfe a ransome not for elect or beleevers or Christians only but for all 1 Tim. 2.6 Besides al this because no man should doubt to maintaine this large extent of the price paid the Scripture steps forth and tels us that there are some men though bought by Christ that do deny the Lord that bought them with that price paid and not God but themselves do thereby bring upon themselves swift destruction 1 Pet. 2.1 Againe observe that whereas it is said that if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Sonne Rom. 5.10 that this reconciliation is applyed by some men as appertaining to beleevers only whereas on the contrary the Scripture gives us to wit that God was in Christ reconciling not elect or beleevers or Christians only but the world unto himselfe not imputing their the worlds trespasses unto them 2 Cor. 5.19 in relation to the first Testament Heb. 9.15 Rom. 5.20 21. And to confirme it that the benefit of his reconciliation is to be applyed to all men the Apostle as a leading ground of that same speech affirmeth in the 15 verse immediately going before in the same Chapter 2 Cor. 5. that Christ dyed for all besides all this the reconciliation being made by his death and pretious blood-shed is none other by a price paid than an atonement or propitiation the benefit whereof as before is proved is in the Scriptures owne words appropriated to all men or every man and for the sins of the whole world as against the first Testament Heb. 9.15 Rom. 5.20 21. And beloved if you please you may see this unlimited sence in this very cause fully proved also in Col. 1.20 being compared with Eph. 1.10 wherein is plainly shewed that not only all men who are Gods most excellent earthly Creatures but also that all things both in Heaven and in earth are by the blood of his crosse reconciled to God himselfe by and in him and that all men are not only gathered together but are also reconciledly gathered together in Christ to God even in him as in those Texts being compared is manifest Thus for instance I have given you a little notice how that the application of these and such like words and expressions of Scripture hath been and are by scholasticall glosses too often drawn away from the true meaning of the Holy Ghost in holy writ which abuse hath very much dazled the judgements of the Christian world The ninth Distinction doth d scover what those sins were which are accounted in Scripture to have been the sinnes against the Father and that those sinnes also were the same sins which in Scripture are called the sinnes of the whole world and that they are all forgiven in and by Christ THey were those sins that were transgressions against the first Testament for the release of which to all men Christ suffered death Heb. 9.15 Rom. 5.20 These sins by Adams fall would have brought in an eternall separation of all men from Gods blessed presence and from their off-spring proceeding from one man they are called the sin of the world which sin the Lamb of God taketh away John 1.29 and by their originall over-spreading leprosie into all mankindes natures they are called the sins of the whole world for which sins also Christ is the propitiation John 1.29 These sins were against God the Father having no incarnation with mankinds humane nature wherefore those sins could not be forgiven without that valuable satisfaction made by Christ therefore out of his love to mankinde God the Father was in Christ reconciling the world unto himselfe not imputing those the worlds sins unto them but laid upon him his son the iniquity of us all Isa 53.6 This was represented unto us by the scape-Goat on which not only some but all the sins of the children of Israel were then put and on him sent away with that goat unto a Land not inhabited even into the Wildernesse Lev. 16.22 or Land of oblivion this significant type being compared with the large efficacy of Christ the Lamb offered without blemish Lev. 23.12 doth signifie to us that the Fathers justice was satisfied for those sins that were against him at the time of his accounting and accepting of the Lamb as if slaine and his pretious blood as if shed which was by the Fathers fore-knowledge of Adams fall timely fore-ordained
infirmities though by them acted against Christ in or under the Covenant of grace as is proved in my 10 14 and 15 Distinctions but covereth them in and by Christ From hence it is said by the Apostle Paul from the Prophet David blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sinnes are covered Blessed is the man to whom the Lordwill not impute sinne Psal 32.1 2. Rim. 1.8 Thus though all men are blessed in Christ from their transgressions against the first Testament which unavoidably comes upon them by Adams fall by their being not imputed unto them as in my 4 10 and 11 Distinctions Yet some men will as hath been touched by their wilfull persisting in unbeliefe transforme all their actuall sinnes into sinnes against grace and so against the Holy Ghost and thereby never obtaine a personall blessednesse in themselves by a non-imputation of those their sinnes against the second Covenant or covenant of grace which they might have escaped if they had well used their ability given them in the common salvation or blessed condition where with all men are infallibly blessed in Christ vertually as is proved not only in this but also in my 4 5 6 7 10 11 20 22 23 and 24 Distinctions The two and twentieth Distinction sheweth that all men are by restoration sanctified in Christ vertually though some men doe abuse the same and so wilfully lose the benefit of that their Sanctification HErto note that in our Types Moses with the blood of Calves and Goats sprinked the people Exod. 4.8 and he sanctified not only some but all the people of the Jewes for none is excepted Exod. 19.14 which are our examples or Types 1 Cor. 16.6 11. Also note that the bodies of those beasts that were brought in by the High Priest for sinne were burnt without the Camp Heb. 13.10 11. therefore note here that as all the people were sprinkled with the blood of those beasts not one man excepted Heb. 9.19 that from this very ground the Apostle to perfect this his discourse concerning that generall sanctification saith Therefore even Jesus that he might sanctifie the people with his owne blood suffered without the gate ver 12. Thus when he satisfied Justice for the sinnes of the people he suffered without the gates of Jerusalem but yet the question may be how many people be thereby sanctified by his so suffering death without the gate to which question the Scripture answers readily saying he dyed for all 2 Cor. 5.15 and that he tasted death for no fewer than every man Heb. 2.9 and that thereby he became the pacifying propitiation for the sinnes of no fewer people than the sinnes of the whole world 1 John 2.2 By these undeniable testimonies is proved that our Saviour Christ sanctified in himselfe as many people with his owne blood by his suffering without the gate as he there dyed for which is all or there tasted death for which is no fewer than every man as those Texts maintaine And considering that his body is the typified Temple John 2.19 20.21 for sanctifying uses to the world as the Jewes Temple was to that whole Nation we ought not to grudge to give our consent with the Scriptures that by his suffering death without the gate for all men or every man that even so all men or every man were thereby sanctified in him although some men doe prophanely abuse that their sanctification in him as in the Type some sanctified Priests and vessels that were once sanctified in the Jewish materiall Temple and set apart for holy uses yet notwithstanding were many waies many times so by them abused and prophaned as that thereby their former sanctification was nullified Againe for our satisfaction in this very point it is said the unbeleeving wife is sanctified by her beleeving husband and also that the unbeleeving husband is sanctified by his beleeving wife whiest they doe willingly abide together as in the 1 of the Corinthians 7.13 16. Now beloved can we beleeve this in the Creatures nay even in as considered of themselves ungodly Creatures and will we not yield to our blessed unspotted Saviour who is not only as in the speciall salvation more peculiarly the head of his Church but also in the common salvation by restoration the head of no fewer than every man as in 1 Cor. 11.3 shal we not yield him the honour to acknowledge that by his pretious blood-shed for every man that thereby all men are sanctified vertually in him by his restoration and should so continue if they after their inablement did abide in him as the unbeleeving wife doth not lose the vertue of her sanctification that shee hath in her beleeving husband if shee depart not from him especially considering that our Saviour Christ affirmeth saying and I if I be lifted up will draw all men unto me John 12.32 not accepting any one man and hee draweth no man for destructive ends Luke 9.56 And considering that not only all men they being in reference to Creation Gods choice earthly things but also all things both in Heaven and in Earth are not only gathered together but also reconciledly gathered together to himselfe in one in Christ even in him as you may see they are by the peace made by the blood of his Crosse if you will be pleased to compare together Col. 1.20 Eph. 1.10 and 2 Cor. 5.15 18 19 20. And even as the beleeving husband and the beleeving wife are in that Text exhorted not to put away the unbeleeving wife or unbeleeving husband except the unbeleever doe wilfully first make choice to depart from the beleever so christ putteth none away from him nor doth forsake any one man before that person maketh choise to depart and doth first actually forsake him as is by Scripture proved in my 16 Distinction But to take away all stumbling in this very cause the Scripture very fairely steps forth and plainly tels us that there are are some men though by grace drawne to him and reconciledly gathered together in one in him as aforesaid yet notwithstanding being not able easily to go back will put to more sathanicall strength and wilfully draw back even to peridition Heb. 10.39 and though bought by him do deny the Lord that bought them 2 Pet. 2.1 and thereby not God by preterition but themselves doe bring upon themselves swift destruction and that there are some men that although they are brought unto the knowledge of the truth 1 Tim. 2.4 Rom. 1.19 that will sinne willingly after they have received the knowledge of the truth Heb. 10.26 And also the Scripture sheweth us that there are some men that although they be by Christ drawn to him and reconciledly gathered together in him even in him as before said that notwithstanding will tread underfoot the Sonne of God and although they be also with his blood sanctified in him yet will count the blood of the Covenant where with they were sanctified note this where with they were sanctified an unholy
And many more excellent discoveries and righteous exhortations may be by us viewed and collected from and in that transparent Chrystall glasse of the equity of the Law which for brevity sake I do omit to rehearse but still desiring you to take notice that notwithstanding the abolishing the eternall curse of the Law whereby mens accusing first husband is dead Yet in erroneous consciences that will not know that that their first husband is departed this world Rom. 7.13 and doe not by Gospell faith dye to the Law by the body of Christ that they should be married to another even to him that is raised from the dead ver 4. In such erroneous persons by their thoughts and consciences excusing or accusing one another by the effects of the Law written in their hearts they will wilfully judge themselves according to the Law of works and from thence are said to be judged by the Law Rom. 2.11 16. Yet it is not God that by that Law judgeth them but it is their so judging themselves erroneously thereby for it being indeed their erroneously chosen judge it will appeare in their consciences as an exact witnesse against them in a Gospell-way restifying their unthankfull walking towards God in his tenders of the grace of the second Covenant by the Holy Ghost But when God judgeth the secrets of mens thoughts and consciences then he judgeth not by the Law but by the Gospell as is annexed thereto in that Chapter ver 16. So not those words spoken and written by God in Mount Sinai being the Law but the words which Christ spake in the Gospell that shall judge men at the Last day John 12.48 And for further proof that the curse of the Law is abolished and blotted out for all men peruse my 20 Distinction Only to conclude hereto note that as Moses was not to lead the children of Israel out of the wildernesse into the earthly Canaan no he must dye and be buried in obscurity Deut. 34.5 6 before that was done and Joshua in the type which is by interpretation Jesus Heb. 4.8 was appointed to bring all those Jewes which had not themselves rebelliously destroyed their intended interest in that earthly Canaan Even so in this very cause though then but typified Moses Law or the first husband Rom. 7.1 4. must dye or be abolished by establishing such a Gospell-way so that Moses Law must not but Jepell-Covenant of grace by himselfe purchased with his owne pretious blood-shed to bring all those men into the heavenly Canaan which have not themselves destroyed their of God intended interest in that blessed inheritance in the spirituall Canaan in their walking through the wildernesse of this terrestrial world The fifth Distinction proveth also that to perfect the foundation of the common salvation Christ by his death hath abolished the first death for all men IN which discovery we are to take notice that there is a second death mentioned in Rev. 2.11 and 20.6 and 21.8 which undeniably proveth that there was a first death from which by Christs performances all men have escaped not medling here with the temporall death of mens bodies which by reason of the resurrection thereof is hardly allowed the name of death but is frequently in Scripture accounted to be a sleep 1 Cor. 15.20 Deut. 31.16 as in the 1 Kin. 1.21 or but a change of the body Job 14.14 1 Cor. 15.52 But of the other two deaths that is the first death which without Christs assistance would have been by the fall eternall over all men and the second death which doth remain eternall to all such men as wilfully and persisting refuse their owne mercies tendered to them by the Holy Ghost by the Gospell Of these two deaths we are to note that one of them is abolished 2 Tim. 1.10 and that Christ by his death swalloweth up one of these deaths in victory 1 Cor. 15.34 Hosea 13.14 But it may be that some men will make a question which of these two deaths is by Christs death abolished In answer whereof considering that Christ dyed for all 2 Cor. 5.15 and that he tasted death for no fewer than all men or every man Heb. 2.9 from hence is proved that it is that death which is abolished which by one mans sinne entred into the world and so death passed upon all men Rom. 5.12 17. This in Scripture is the first death for all men or every man doe not perish by the second death there be some men that have part in the first resurrection over whom the second death hath no power Rev. 19.6 but this death which is in 2 Tim. 1.10 mentioned to be abolished came in over all men in and with the first entrance of sinne into the world This sinne in respect it issued originally by one mans offence is called in the singular number the sinne of the world which the Lamb of God taketh away John 1.29 And in respect of the overspreading leprosie thereof throughout mankinde in their individuals it is in Scripture in the plurall number called the sins of the whole world for all which Christ hath also made a pacificall propitiation 1 John 2.2 These were sins naturally against the Morall Law of workes for they came in originally by Adams rebelliously acting against the Law of do and live Now our Saviour having by his tasting death of every man satisfied justice for no fewer sins than the sins of the whole world in reference to the first Testament Heb. 9.15 Rom. 5.20 21. for which the first death came upon all men it unavoidably followeth that all those sins being so by his death destroied which sins were the sting of that first death 1 Cor. 15.54 and the Morall Law or first Testament being abolished and blotted out which was the strength of that sinne ver 56. as is proved the Law is in my last Distinction from hence all those the worlds sinns are not imputed to the world 2 Cor. 5.19 but our iniquities against the first Testament Heb 9.15 Rom. 5.20 were laid upon Christ Isa 53.6 And Christ by his incomparable victorious conquest finished by his resurrection and ascension from under the charge of those the worlds sins and from under the power of the curse of the Law and power of the first death thereto due he swalloweth up not the second death but the first death in victory according to 1 Cor. 15.54 Hos 13.14 And hereto it is very remarkeable there is no first death named in Scripture by which any one man hath done doth or shall eternally perish for that is prevented by our Saviour Christs performances but when the death is named or distinguished by which any man doth perish eternally it is distinctly and plainely called the second death as appears plainly in Rev. 2.11 20. and 6.14 and 21.8 for the second death is the relative eternall punishment for the transgressions against the second Covenant which is of grace if by men gressions against the second Covenant which is
over no fewer than all men as in this Text Rom. 5.12 and Rom. 3.19 so answerably this Text affirmeth that grace did much more abound where sinne abounded by these Texts compared it is hereby proved even in the very litterall sense that as all have sinned even so grace did much more abound over all men which is the same still as before only further strengthned that all have sinned being justified freely by his grace And the reason why this justification in and by Christ is extended to all men is therewith given to be this in the same Chapter Rom. 5. That as sinne had reigned unto death even over all men ver 12. even so largely and timely might grace reigne through righteousnesse unto eternall life by Jesus Christ our Lord ver 21. and as it is here said that even so might grace reign So observe that it is said as hath been touched That he hath made him to be sinne for us that we might be made the righteousnesse of God in him 2 Cor. 5.21 Note that to set forth how many men is meant by the word we it is said in verse 15. that he dyed for all for the world verse 19. From thence is granted though not that all men are made but that all might be made in this life by beleeving if they resist not imputatively the righteousnesse of God in him and might be made at the resurrection of the body inherently and perfectly righteous in themselves Note herewith that no one of Adams posterity either had or shall have an inherent personall righteousnesse either in him by him or from him the first Adam yet by Creation it was possible that they all might have proceeded from him by generation inherently righteous but that possibility being lost by his fall we finde that there is a restored possibility in and by Christ the second Adam procured though not that all men are made but that by the good meanes by Christ performed for all men and in due season communicated to and in all men according to the Text as all men are by and in Christ made righteous before God by a non-imputation of their sinnes against the Law So thereby in their well usage of that ability given all men might be made imputatively personally righteous before God in this life time by their beleeving and in their so abiding might be all made as inherently righteous at the resurrection of the body as Adam was by Creation For beloved our Saviour Christ hath been and is but upon the work of eternall safety which he hath on his part intended and doth intend to finish for all if so be that men do not mar themselves wilfully upon his well-forming Potters wheele of restoration after ability given them to doe the contrary as Adam did for himselfe and all his posterity contrary to Gods gratious prime intent in the Creation For considering that a reconciliation is by Christ made to God for the sinnes of all men or the whole world so that thereby their sinnes against the first Testament Heb. 9.15 Rom. 5.18 20. are not imputed to them as is fully proved in my 20 Distinction This doth undeniably prove the justification of all men from all those sinnes by Christ before God and from this gratious justification of all men by Christ the transgressions against the first Testament Heb. 9.15 Rom. 5.18 or the sinnes accounted to be directly against the Father as in my 9 Distinction which sinnes are called the sinnes of the whole world 1 John 2.2 are called the sinnes past or the sinnes which are of God passed by Rom. 3.25 and from that reconciliation made they are called old sinnes from which some men are said through their wilfull unbeleefe to forget that they are purged 2 Pet. 2.9 and by that reconciliation those sinnes are counted transgressions not that are but which were under the first Testament Heb. 9.15 And from that reconciliation made those sinnes are said not to be sinnes that doe reign but that had reigned unto death Rom. 5.21 although some men doe by their wilfull unbeleefe and disobedience though having so escaped those pollutions yet doe returne with the dog to the vomit and with the sow that was washed to the wallowing in the mire of transgressions against the second Testament or Covenant of grace gratiously prefented to all men in due season by the Holy Ghost But notwithstanding this rebellious Apostacy of some men from God by their wilfull unbeleefe after their inabling abidingly to beleeve as is in my 6 and 7 Distinctions proved that all men are in due season Yet beloved we are to observe this still that all that doe beleeve are justified not only from the curse of the Law and the eternall power which would have thereby seised on them by the first death as all men are whether any man do beleeve it or not but also in a further sense they are justified from all things from which they could not be justified by the Law of Moses Acts 13.39 For the clearing of which Text I intreat you to take notice that notwithstanding Christs so effectuall and timely taking away the eternity of the curse of the Law or first Testament and abolishing the first death due for the transgressions against the covenant of workes even for all men as it is proved that he hath done in my 4 and 5 Distinctions from which the Law of Moses could not justifie any man so that no sinnes of that nature against the Covenant of works or the Fathers Covenant written with his owne finger on Mount Sinai Exod. 31.18 are imputed to the world 2 Cor. 5.18 Col. 1.20 Rom. 5.18 19 20 21. because God hath laid upon him the iniquity of us all Isa 53.6 even us all men and although this remission is effectually procured by Christ to remaine for ever for the benefit of all men whether any man do beleeve or do not beleeve the same Yet notwithstanding mens actuall sinnes even to an idle word Ma. 12.36 are ever since Christs ransoming all men by the Fathers estimation and application of the vertue of his blood as if it had been actually shed at Adams fall as is shewed in my ninth Distinction Sinnes not against the Law but against grace procured by Christ for all men from which also the Law of Moses cannot justifie any man which sinnes whilest they remaine in any man to be only sins of ignorance frailty and infirmity as Christ hath purchased a power to himselfe to forgive those sinnes as Sonne of man Mat. 9.6 Mark 2.16 So he hath promised that verily all those sinnes shall be forgiven unto the sonnes of men Mat. 12.32 Luke 12.10 even untill they prove sinnes persisted in against the Holy Ghosts gratious dictates as those Texts do manifest for then those men by those sins so far persisted in doe totally exclude from themselves the benefit of the Covenant of grace and those persons have then thereby no relation to receive pardon by
have also separated Adam for ever from Gods blessed presence as is proved in my 9 Distinction and then by all mens being blotted out of that book of life thereby the blessedness intended of God for all men by Creation was extinguished and the blessed first life therewith was ended and then the first death entred which without Christ the everlasting Fathers gratious performances considered would have been eternall even over all men for there by one man sinne entred into the world and death by sinne and death passed over no fewer than all men Rom. 5.12 and that this death was the first death antecedent to the second death mentioned in Rov 2.11 and 20.6 14. appeareth plainly in this that this death passed over all men Rom. 5.12 but the second death set forth in those texts in the Revelations neither hath done doth nor shall passe over all men for there are some men are blessed by having a part in the first resurrection on whom the second death hath no power Rev. 20.6 Thus we find that the spirituall book of life pertaining to the observation of the first Testament established by God as appertaining to the very act of Creation was by the shall of Adam into sinne and rebellion utterly nullified so that all men by the fall of Adam as before is said were blotted out of the same But now beloved we may easily discerne that of free grace by Gods fore-knowledge of the fall the shedding of Christs pretious blood for a propitiation for those sinnes of no fewer persons than the sinnes of the whole world 1 John 2.2 John 1.29 was fore-ordained before the foundation of the world 1 Pet. 1.18 19 20. And that also by that unspotted Lamb of God his being in Gods acceptation and estimation accounted of as if he had been slaine from the foundation of the world Rev. 13.8 And also that by vertue of the same generall reconciliation made Col. 1.20 Eph. 1.10 by that prepared pretious antidote its being so timely and seasonably applyed to the contagion to expell the poison of those sinnes even at the very entrance of sinne into the world that by that same efficacious meanes the sinnes of the whole world 1 John 2.2 or transgressions against the Morall Law or first Testament Heb. 9.15 Rom. 5.20 or sinnes directly against the Father as in my 9 Distinction were perfectly not imputed to them the world 2 Cor. 5.18 for God laid upon him the iniquity of us all Isa 53.6 even of us all men considering hee tasted death for no fewer than all men 2 Cor. 5.15 or every man Heb. 2.9 Thereby abolishing the curse of the Law and the eternity of the power of the first death even for all men as it is proved in my 4 and 5 Distinctions Thus Christ who is the everlasting Father and Prince of peace is the light of the world John 8.12 and the truth and the life John 4.6 the infranchising restoring Adam Acts 3.21 who swalloweth up the first death in victory as is fully proved in my 5 Distinction by that means he did bring in a restored life and immortality to light through the Gospell 2 Tim. 1.10 whereby appeareth why it is peculiarly fixed on him that in him we live and move and have our being which is not that condition of life which came in by Creation for in that respect it s said In the beginning God created Heaven and Earth and in the plurall number let us make man in hiding the blessed Trinity Gen. 1.26 that life and being was to have stood by the perfect obedience to the Law of works but that blessed first life intended for mankinde being nulled by the fall of Adam for all men then this Gospell-restored living moving and being of all men as you see is appropriated to him our Lord Christ and his restoration for all power is given unto him in Heaven and in Earth Mat. 28.18 who in restored immortall life at the finall resurrection will fully take possession of all men good and bad beleevers and unbeleevers though wilfull unbeleevers will turne the blessednesse of that immortall life formerly intended for them into a curse as appeareth by those differing sentences pronounced concerning all men where it is said when the Sonne of Man shall come in his glory come yee blessed of my Father c. and depart from me yee cursed into everlasting fire Mat. 25.31 34 41. which saying fully proveth the immortality of that cursed life which is called the second death and although some men doe thus wilfully perish in the second death though being by Christ and his performances perfectly delivered from the first death yet wee finde as is before proved that life and immortality is brought againe to light through the Gospell by his restoration from the first death for and to all men to secure not only those Apostates but all men from perishing in that grisly cursed condition of the first death which otherwise would have been eternall to all By which means accomplished by Christ the everlasting Father and Prince of peace for all men the restored book of life wherein all men were then againe according to Scripture-language written entred into the world for from this very ground as I finde said the free gift came upon no fewer than all men unto justification of life in Rom. 5.18 So also I finde it thus verbatim in some reformed Bibles said Likewise then as by the sinne of one condemnation came on all men even so by the justifying of one commeth the righteousnesse that bringeth life upon all men Rom. 5.18 Thus the grace of God that bringeth salvation unto no lesse number than all men hath appeared Tit. 2.11 And hereby we find that there is a restored book of life brought into the world by and with Christ the free gift his being given to the world John 3.16 wherein by him and his costly gratious means used all men were againe written and also accordingly we finde God gratiously appearing to the world againe with this restored book of life by Moses his desiring of God for the preservation of the Jewish Nation saying blot me out of the book that thou hast written Exod. 32.32 Also there is expresse mention made of his book of life Psal 69.28 but we need no further in this cause to traverse those records for as hath been somewhat touched so more fully to satisfie the world in this very point it is plainly said he that overcommeth I will not blot his name out of the book of life Rev. 3.5 Is not this a cleare testimony of Scripture to maintain this canse we cannot shut our internall eyes so close if we be but rationall men but that we must needs know hereby considering the book of life which came in by Creation was extinguished by Adams fall that even those mens names which do not overcome were once again written in this book of life that came in by Christs restoration for else how is it possible