Jean Daille (1594–1670) on "World" as Cited by Thomas Pierce

Thomas Pierce was apparently an Arminian, but he cites Jean Daille on the topic of the biblical use of "world." The latin quotes are in the margin with the source, which was probably this work (click), on pages 16 and 17.

Pierce wrote:

Nay, as the Learned Daille doth acknowledge, (who is farre from being an Arminian) whensoever the World in Holy Writ doth not signifie Mankind, it clearly signifies the greater and worser part.

Thomas Pierce, 'ΑΥΤΟΚΑΤΑ'ΚΡΙΣΙΣ, or, Self-Condemnation, Exemplified in Mr. Whitefield, Mr. Barlee, and Mr. Hickman. With Occassional Reflexions on Mr Calvin, Mr Beza, Mr Zwinglius, Mr Piscator, Mr Rivet, and Mr Rollock: But More Especially on Doctor Twisse, and Master Hobbs (London, Printed by J. G. for R. Royston at the Angel in Ivy-lane, 1658), 202–203.

…he gives notice to Spanhemius, that if we suffer our own selves to understand the world of the Elect onely, (a trick never heard of, saith Daille, from any writer in the World, whether Jew or Gentile) we shall encourage the bold and licentius people to make God's word a Nose of Wax, and forge up on it what sense they please.

Ibid., 203.

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), A7^v; 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), A7^v.

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.

Update:
 
David has posted Culverwell on John 3:16.