Salus electorum, sanguis Jesu, or, The death of death in the death of Christ a treatise of the redemption and reconciliation that is in the blood of Christ with the merit thereof, and the satisfaction wrought thereby : wherin the proper end of the death of Christ is asserted ... and the whole controversie about universall redemption fully discussed in foure parts, whereof the I. Declareth the eternall counsell, and distinct actuall concurrence of father, sonne, and holy spirit ... 2. Removeth false and supposed ends of the death of Christ ... rightly stating the controversie, 3. Containeth arguments against universall redemption from the word, with an affection of the satisfaction and merit of Christ, 4. Answereth all considerable objections as yet brought to light ... / by John Owen ...

PROOFE 8.

The restauration wrought by Christ in his owne body for mankinde, is set forth in Scripture to be as large and full for all men, and of as much force as the fall of the fall of the first Adam by & in himself for all men: in which respect the first Adam is said to have been a figure of Christ the second Adam, Rom 3. 22, 23, 24. & 5. 12, 14, 18. 1 Cor. 15. 21, 22, 45, 46, 47. As is before shewne, Chap. 8.

ANSWER.

It is most true that Christ and Adam are compared together, in respect of the righteousnesse of the one, communicated to them that are his, and the disobedience and transgression of the other, in like manner communicated to all them that are of him in some of the places here mentioned: as Rom. 5 12. 18. but evidently the comparison is not instituted between the righteousnesse of Christ, and the disobedience of Adam, extensively in respect of the object, but intensively in respect of the efficacy of the one and the other; the Apostle asserting the effectualnesse of the righteousnesse of Christ unto justification, to answer the prevalency of the sinne of Adam unto condemnation; that even as the transgression of A∣dam brought a guilt of condemnation upon all them that are his naturall seed; so the righteousnesse of Christ, procured the free gift of grace unto justification, towards all them that are his, his spirituall seed, that were the children given unto him of his Fa∣ther. 2^ly. 1 Cor. 15. 22, 23. speaketh of the resurrection from the dead, and that onely of Believers; for though he mentions them as all, Verse 22. In Christ all shall be made alive; yet Verse 23. hee plainly interprets those all to be all that are Christs; not but that the other dead shall rise also, but that it is a resurrection to glory by vertue of the resurrection of Christ, which the Apostle here treats of, which certainly all shall not have. 3. The con parison between Christ and Adam, verse 45. to speake nothing of the va∣rious

reading of that place, is onely in respect of the principles, which they had and were intrusted withall to communicate to o∣thers, Adam a living soule, or a living creature; there was in him a principle of life naturall, to bee communicated to his posterity, Christ a quickning Spirit, giving life, grace and spirit to his: And here I would desire that it may be observed that all the compari∣son, that is any where instituted between Christ and Adam, still comes to one head, and aimes at one thing, viz. that they were as two common stocks or roots, communicating to them that are ingrafted into them (that is into Adam naturally by generation; into Christ, spiritually by regeneration) that where∣with they were replenished, Adam, sinne, guilt, and disobedience; Christ, righteousnesse, peace, and justification, for the number of those that doe thus receive these things, from one and the other, the consideration of it is exceedingly alien from the scope, aime, and end of the Apostle in the places where the comparison is in∣stituted. 4. It is true Rom. 3. 23 it is said, All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God, which the Apostle had at large proved be∣fore, thereby to manifest, that there was no salvation to be attai∣ned, but onely by Jesus Christ: but if ye will aske to whom this righteousnesse of Christ is extended, and that redemption which is in his bloud, he telleth ye plainly, it is unto all, and upon all them that believe, verse 22. whether they be Jew or Gentile, there is no difference.