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Atonement
21. Limited Atonement. God
did not intend to save those, by the death of Christ, that he knew, from
all eternity, he should not save by his death. If he intended to save
any, it was those he knew would be saved.
424. Atonement Is
Sufficient. Christ did die for all in this sense: that all by his death
have an opportunity of being saved. He had that design in dying that
they should have that opportunity by it, for it is a thing that God
designed that all men should have such an opportunity, or they would not
have it, and they have it by the death of Christ. This however is no
designing of the atonement but only for the preservation of their being.
Paul uses the term in a similar way in 1 Tim. 4:10, “For to this end we
toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is
the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.
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