October 18, 2007

Ezekiel Culverwell (c.1554–1631) on Kosmos

Ezekiel Culverwell (a 17th century English Puritan) said:
I profess I cannot find any one clear place where [the World] must of necessity be taken for the Elect only.
Ezekiel Culverwell, A Brief Answer to Certain Objections against the Treatise of Faith (London: Printed by John Dawson, 1646), A7v; or p. 12. [no pagination; pages numbered manually from the title page] Also in Ezekiel Culverwell, A Brief Answer to Certaine Objections against the Treatise of Faith, made by Ez. Culverwell. Clearing him from the errors of Arminius, unjustly laid to his charge (London: Printed by I. D. for William Sheffard, and are to be sold at his Shop at the entrance in cut of Lumbard streete into Popes-head Alley, 1626), A7v.

This quote is also found in Richard Baxter's Universal Redemption of Mankind (London: Printed for John Salusbury at the Rising-Sun in Cornill, 1694), 295.

It is reported that Culverwell agreed with his friend James Ussher's True Intent and Extent of Christ's Death. See Jonathan Moore's English Hypothetical Universalism (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2007), 175–176, 183–84n56, 191n97, 212.

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