Sound doctrine, or, The doctrine of the Gospel about the extent of the death of Christ being a reply to Mr. Paul Hobson's pretended answer to the author's Fourteen queries and ten absurdities : with a brief and methodicall compendium of the doctrine of the Holy Scriptures ... : also of election and reprobation ... : whereunto is added the fourteen queries and ten absurdities pretended to be answered by Mr. Paul Hobson, but are wholly omitted in his book.

These Absurdities will unavoydably fall on those which deny Christs death for all.

• 1. IF Christ died but for some of the sons of men, then the di∣vel destroyes not those men for whom Christ died not, but they perish for want of Christ, and should so perish if there were no devil to devour them: contrary to this Scripture, 1 Pet. 1.8.
• 2. If Christ died not for all men, then despaire is no sin in them who perish through it, seeing there is nothing for them to believe in unto salvation for whom Christ died not.
• 3. If Christ died not for all men, then I think it were a sin for some men to believe he died for them, because they should believe a lie, if they should believe that Christ dyed for them; see∣ing he did not, if they speak true which say he died not for all.
• 4. If there were some persons for whom Christ died not, such persons should be exempted or freed from the condemnation of unbelief, or treading underfoot the blood of the Covenant by which they were sanctified, if it were true that Christ had not once died for them: for how can that man crucifie Christ afresh, or tread underfoot the blood by which he was sanctified, for whom no Christ died, or no blood was shed, if they say true that say, Christ died not for all?
• 5. If Christ died not for all, Satan in perswading people that Christ died not for them, doth not evil, if that be true that Christ

• died not for them, and therein he were no deceiver, but rather perswades them to that which is truth, if Christ died not for all, as they say.
• 6. If Christ died not for all men, then it were no heresie for to teach some men to deny that Christ bought them, contrary to that Scripture 2 Pet. 2.1. who said, Some men bring in damna∣ble heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them bring∣ing on themselves swift destruction: But it is impossible for him who Christ died not for, to deny the Lord that bought him, or to be a heretick in so doing, if Christ bought him not.
• 7. If there be some whom Christ died not for, it is an error for them to believe that Christ died for them, which say they he died not for.
• 8. If Christ died not for all men, then some men for whom Christ died not do believe a truth, in believing that Christ died not for them, which were a blasphemy to say.
• 9. If Christ died not for all men, then some men shall be dam∣ned in hell for not believing that which is not truth, because some men shall be damned in hell for not believing that Christ dyed for them: yet some say that it is not truth that Christ died for them, and so shall be damned in hell for not believing a lie.
• 10. If Christ died not for all men, then their damnation is not to be ascribed to their not believing, but to Christ not dying for them: which is contrary to these Scriptures, Joh. 3.18, 36.