Two words there are that are mightily stuck upon or stumbled at; — first, The ivorld; secondly, All. The particular places wherein they are, and from which the arguments of our adversaries are urged, we shall afterward consider, and for the present only show that the words themselves, according to the Scripture use, do not necessarily hold out any collective universality of those concerning whom they are affirmed, but, being words of various significations, must be in- terijreted according to the scope of the place where they are used and the subject-matter of which the Scripture treateth in those places.
First, then, fur the word tuorld, which in the New Testament is called K6ff/j.og (for there is another word sometimes translated world, namely, aJuv, that belongs not to this matter, noting rather the duration of time than the thing in that sjoace continuing) : he that doth not acknowledge it to be ToXudTj/xov, need say no more to manifest his unacquaintedness in the book of God. I shall briefly give you so many various significations of it as shall make it appa- rent that from the bare usage of a word so exceedingly equivocal, no argument can be taken, until it be distinguished, and the meaning thereof in that particular place evinced from whence the argument is taken-
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TUE SCHEME.
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11. 'OXixu;. 2. M'.f,x.^i, } „j.Q r 1- Coelo aspectabili. idque vel / ^ \ 2. Terra habitabili.
1. Collective, ecu Kara vdvrx;,
2 Distributive, pro I ^; ^'^^^^^'^^
o CI- i. r !• Bonis, seu electis.
3. S.gnanter, pro | g. Malis, seu reprobis.
'AipiffTas, seu communiter.
Restrictive, seu e-uyt»- ( 1
12
2. Adjunc- tive, ratione
1. Incola- rum, idque
4.
L5.
f 1. Corruptionis, unde j ^'
o A • 1 i- sumitur pro 1 T
2. Accidcntium -J ^ ^ rf.
[ 2. Malcdictionis.'
Praecipuis.
Romanis.
Ipsa corniptione.
Sede corruptionis.
Terrena conditione.
All tliese distinctions of the use of the word are made out in the following observations : —
The word world in the Scripture is in general taken five ways: — ■
First, Fro mundo continente ; and that, — First, generally, oXus, for the whole fabric of heaven and earth, with all things in them con- tained, which in the beginning were created of God: so Job xxxiv. 13; Acts xvii. 24 ; Eph. i. 4, and in very many other places. Secondly, Distinctively, first, for the heavens, and all things belonging to them, distinguished from the earth, Ps. xc. 2; secondly. The habitable earth, and this very frequently, as Ps. xxiv. 1, xcviii. 7; Matt, xiii. 38; John i. 9, iii. 17, 19, vi. 14, xvii. 11 ; 1 Tim. i. 15, vi. 7.
Secondly, For the world contained, especially men in the world; and that either, — First, universally for all and every one, Rom. iii. 6, 19, V. 12. Secondly, Indefinitely for men, without restriction
' The followino; is a translation of tlie above scheme : —
' I. Subjectively ■! f,'
f (1.) The visible heaven.
II. Adjunc- tively, in re- - spect of,
1. Universally.
Partially ; for ^ ^2.) The habitable earth.
' 1. The inhabitants, and that, — (1.) Collectively for the whole. (2.) Distributively ; for, —
[1.] Any.
[2.] Many. (3.) Signally, —
[1.] The good, or elect.
[2.] The wicked, or reprobate. (4.) Indifferently, or in common. (5.) Restrictively, or synecdochi-
cally; for, —
[1-1 The chief
[2.] The Romans.
2. The accidents;
(1.) Of corruption.
[1.] Corruption itself. [2.] The seat of cot-
ruptiou. [3.] The earthly con- dition. L (2.) Of the cui-se.
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ANSWERS TO ARGUMENTS FOR UNIVERSAL REDEMPTION. SOS
or enlargement, John vii. 4; Isa. xiii. 11. TJiirdly, Exegetically, for many, which is the most usual acceptation of the word, Matt, xviii. 7; John iv. 42, xii. 19, xvi. 8, xvii, 21; 1 Cor. iv. 9; Rev. xiii. 8. Fourthly, Comparatively, for a great part of the world, Rom. i. 8; Matt. xxiv. 14, xxvi. 13; Rom. x. 18. Fifthly, Restric- tively, for the inhabitants of the Roman empire, Luke ii. 1. Sixthly, For men distinguished in their several qualifications, as, — \st, Fcg: the good, God's people, either in designation or possession, Ps. xxii. 27; John iii. 16, vi. 33, 51; Rom. iv. 13, xi. 12, 15; 2 Cor. V. 19; Col. L 6; 1 John ii, 2. '^dly. For the evil, wicked, rejected men of the world, Isa. xiii. 11; John vii. 7, xiv. 17, 22, xv. 19, xvii. 25; 1 Cor. vi. 2, xi. 32; Heb. xi. 38; 2 Pet. ii. 5; 1 John V. 19; Rev. xiii. 3.
Thu'dly, For the world corrupted, or that universal corruption which is in all things in it, as Gal. i. 4, vi. 14; Eph. ii. 2; James i. 27, iv. 4; 1 John ii. 15-17; 1 Cor. vii. 31, 33; Col. ii. 8; 2 Tim. iv. 10; Rom. xii. 2; 1 Cor. i. 20, 21, iii. 18, 19.
Fourthly, For a terrene worldly estate or condition of men or things, Ps. Ixxiii. 12; Luke xvi. 8; John xviii. 36; 1 John iv. 5, and very many other places.
Fifthly, For the world accursed, as under the power of Satan, John vii. 7, xiv. 30, xvi. 11, 33; 1 Cor. ii. 12; 2 Cor. iv. 4; Eph. vi. 12. And divers other significations hath this word in holy writ, which are needless to recount.