Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
I. They bring that place of Saint John, Chapter 3. Verse 16. Where God is said to have so loved the world, that he gave his Son: which place we have already taught, doth hurt Arminius; and that the sending of the Son is in the following words, restrained to the believers alone. Whence it is manifest, that Christ was not sent, but to save them who were to believe.
I might say that the world is here taken for the faithful alone; as, John 6. 33 and I Tim. 3.16 and Heb. 2.5. But although we grant, that by the world all mankind are contained in the whole, yet it will not thence follow, that Christ purchased Salvation for all, and particular men, doth abundantly testify, that mankind is loved by God. ...
For more, see Pierre Du Moulin on Arminianism and John 3:16.
I might say that the world is here taken for the faithful alone; as, John 6. 33 and I Tim. 3.16 and Heb. 2.5. But although we grant, that by the world all mankind are contained in the whole, yet it will not thence follow, that Christ purchased Salvation for all, and particular men, doth abundantly testify, that mankind is loved by God. ...
For more, see Pierre Du Moulin on Arminianism and John 3:16.