There is a distinction which this Gentleman hath not (I suppose) ever considered, which may bring light, and some Conviction to him. A distinction of Christ in the Flesh, and of Christ in the Spirit. It is we know a Scripture distinction. What Jesus Christ now hath done for us in the flesh he hath, and must have done for All; and the direct and immediate fruit of it belong to all, for he took on him our flesh, not as the flesh of the Elect, but as the flesh of Mankind (the nature of man, not that of Angels): What he does for us in the Spirit is peculiar to some, and if it be saving, to the Elect only. The work of Christs redemption (being by his Blood) was wrought for us through his Flesh, (in which all mankind have Union with him,) and that is therefore Universal, with the benefit that does directly and immediately issue from it: the giving us Faith and Repentance is the work of Christ through the Spirit, (in which his Members only have Union with him) and is particular to the Chosen.John Humfrey, Peace at Pinners-Hall Wish'd and Attempted in a Pacifick Paper Touching The Universality of Redemption, the Conditionality of the Covenant of Grace, and our Freedom from the Law of Works (London, Printed and are to be Sold by Randal Taylor near Amen-Corner, 1692), 4.
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