| | Phyſical Operation, bur from the goodneſs of God, as it was an 4 | of Obedience ro the Divine Inftitution for that end : So neither dot Faith in the Mediaror juſtitie and obtain Pardon for any Scuj, {;, any meritorious vertue in thar act, but from Gods graciousO:ting, tion, thar ſo it ſhall be ; he hatn ſc ordained, that whoſoever ſoul; ( reſt upon Chrilt, and receive him by Faith as his Mediator and $,. j viour, ſhould not periſh, bur live for ever, There are orher thing; 0 beſides Faith necet{ary to Salvation, ſuch are Repentance, Loy ſg v new Obedience ; nor is Faith only mentioned, becauſe they ze 7 C gredients into it, but becauſe Faith is the Root of all thoſe, nd th; P14 from which they mult neceſſarily flow, for it is as impollible that any e, Ie ſhould rruly hope, and truſt in, and rett upon Chriſt for thar lj | which he hath only promiſed to thoſe thar obey him, withoutcyin, to yield that Obedience to him; as 1t js impoſſible thar any ſhould jr; deed trait in, and reit upon a Man who hath promiſed a Rewyg 4 upon a Condition, for that Reward, without any care to fultl th " Condition. Bur by this and other Places, where Faith alone in Chit - is mentioned as neceflary to Salvation, Nzcodemus was taught, tha ” no Obedience to the works of the Law without this Faith in the as Mediator, would bring the Soul ro eternal Life and Salvation, * I6 < * For God ſoloved the world 5, that he gave41o fie his only begotten Son & ; that whoſoever beliercth in fs him, ſhould not periſh, but have everlafting life / on z For God the Farther, who is the Lord of all, Debror to none ” ſufficient ro himſelf, ſo loved rhe Word, that is Gentiles 15 well zs 7 Fews. There 1s a great contelt about the Signification of the term, % berwixt thoſe who contend for or againſt the pcint of univerſal Ree . x demption ; bur certain it is, that from this term, no more canhe (o- bn licly concluded, than from the term a/ and every, which in mutt Fox tudes of places are taken in a reſtrained Senſe for many, or allof ſuck 'T a Narion or Kind ; as this term fometimes fgnities all Perfons.pin c [ I Fohn 2. 2. the Gentiles in oppolitionto the Fewvs ; nor (adititthat pl ' the World fignifie here every Scul, in che place called the World } = will any thing follow from 17, It is proper enough to ſay, A min _—_ loved ſuch a Family to ſuch a degree, rhat he gave his Fitate to ir, Ss tho* he never intended ſuch a thing to every Child or Branch of it; icight fo as what 1s truth in that ſo yexed queſtion, cannot be determined erJhou from any of theſe univerſal Terms ; which muft, when allis ſaid or W 4 | can be aid, be expounded by whar follows them, and by their re- loving concilableneſs to other DoCtrines of Faith. God ſo loved the World can a\ k. that he gave his Son to die fora Sacrifice for their Sins, to die in things their ſtead, and give a Satisfaction for them to his Juſtice, And ral Li rhis Son was not any of his Sons by Adcption, but his on begotten They, Son, not ſo called, (as Soc:114ans would have it ) becauſe of his fin- but cl gular Generation of the Virgin without help of Mar, bu: from his Ittlea eternal Generation, #n whom the Gentiles ſhould tru, Fſal. 1. 1 is of t] which none ought to do, but in God alone, Dev. 6. 13. Jer- 17-5: both ; { That whoſoever, &c. The term { al ) occurred, v. 15. and the Et there ſpoken to ; theſe words reſtrain the univerſal Term 71d, and ſefſed all to ler us know thar Chriſt only died for ſome in the World, 9:7; ſation, Such as ſhould believe in him. Some judge, nor improbably, that Tight y Chriſt uſeth the rerm ZY/071d, in this Verle, in the ſame Senſe, a 1 polite 170912. 2. Our Evangeliſt uſeth to rake down the Pride of the 7*#!, 21 who dreamed that the Meſſiah came only for the benefit of the Setd that of Abraham, not for the Nations of the World, he only came !0 ng deſtroy them, which notion alſo very well fitreth what we havein te TO next Verſe. | ny T1 [1 » af 17 * For God ſent not his Son into the World, to . what is condemn the World ; but that the World through his Not him might be ſaved ». FIG m The word we tranſlate Condemn, is zetvn, ſignifies t0 Fuage, 0 " as well asto Condemn. The Fews were mittaken in their prov _ Conceits, that Chriſt came to judge and deitroy all thſoe that vere ons not of their Nation; thus Ch. 12. 47. he ſaith, he came not 79 1%hs oy G, of ut toſave the World ; noris this contrary to what he faith, £94? __ 4 9. 39. For judgment am I come into thi world ; for that 18 © — A. oi ent, from the corruption of men, ſhutting their Eyes againlt tne Utanc,
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