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Again let me remind you that the Scriptures plainly teach us that the atonement of
our Lord Jesus Christ has a universal bearing; and it seems to me that those who
limit the value of the atonement do most seriously err from the faith. I believe the
sacrifice of Jesus Christ was so infinite that, if there had been ten thousand worlds
full of sinners to have been redeemed, it was amply sufficient to have redeemed them
all. 3012.530
The chosen are spoken of in this manner, These are they which are redeemed from
among men, and although the redemption of Christ has its universal aspect very
plainly taught in Gods Word, and I hope we shall never try to take away the force of
those universal passagesyet there is a special redemption besides. 3358.278
Some preachers and professors affect to believe in a redemption which I must
candidly confess I do not understand; it is so indistinct and indefinitea redemption
which does not redeem anybody in particular, though it is alleged to redeem
everybody in general; a redemption insufficient to exempt thousands of unhappy
souls from hell after they have been redeemed by the blood of Jesus; a redemption,
indeed, which does not actually save anybody, because it is dependent for its efficacy
upon the will of the creature; a redemption that lacks intrinsic virtue and inherent
power to redeem anybody, but is entirely dependent upon an extraneous contingency
to render it effectual. 3532.476
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