God is the Father of all men. Have we not all one Father? Hath not one God created us? Mal. 2:10 A kind Father will not punish his children but for their good. God is evidently called the Father of all men in the Scriptures, and this is not an unmeaning name; he has the disposition and principles of a Father. He loves with a Fathers love; he watches with a Fathers care; he reproves with a Fathers tenderness; he punishes with a Fathers design. God is the Father of all men; and, therefore, he cannot make mankind endlessly miserable. GOD THE LORD, OR OWNER OF MEN All men, of right, belong to God. Behold, all souls are mine, saith the Lord. As the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine. Ezek. 18:4 God will not give up what belongeth to him, to the dominion of sin and Satan forever. All men are Gods by creation; he made them all. They are his by preservation; he sustains them all. They were his at first, and they always have remained in his care. The earth is the Lords, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. That God, who says to men, If any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith and is worse than an infidel, can never abandon his own creatures. He will ever exercise a gracious care over them, as will be more fully seen in the following reasons. ALL MEN COMMITTED TO CHRISTS CARE God hath given all things to Christ, as the moral Ruler of the world. Ask of me, and I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Psalms 2:8 The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. John 3:35 All things, here, means all intelligent beings. So say the best commentators. (The word things is in italics in the KJV which means it is not in the Greek. We are not talking about trees here.) 5. God gave all beings to Christ that he might save them. Thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. John 17:2 This plainly evinces, that it was Gods design, in giving Christ dominion over all flesh, that they should all enjoy eternal life. 6. It is certain that Christ will save all that the Father hath given him. All that the Father giveth me, shall come to me, and him that cometh to me I will in nowise cast out. John 6:37 These three propositions are irrefragable evidence of the final happiness of all men. 1st. God hath given all things to Christ. 2d. All that God hath given him shall come to him; and 3d. him that cometh he will in nowise cast out. All are given; all shall come; and none shall be cast out. What is the unavoidable conclusion? THE WILL OF GOD 7. It is THE WILL of God that all men shall be saved. Who will have all men to be saved, and come unto the knowledge of the truth. KJV 1Tim. 2:4 By all men, in this passage, is undoubtedly to be understood all the human race. Salvation comes through the belief of the truth. God wills that all men should come to the knowledge of the truth, and be saved thereby. 8. God inspires the hearts of the good to pray for the salvation of all men, and say, as Jesus said, Thy will be done. Matt. 6:10. Adam Clarke says, Because he wills the salvation of all men, therefore he wills that all men should be prayed for; as in 1 Tim. 2:1. I exhort, therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men. Would God inspire the hearts of his saints to pray for the salvation of all mankind, if he knew they would not all be saved? 9. Jesus came to do the will of God. My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. John 4:34 Lo, I come to do they will, O God. Heb. 10:9 The will of God is, that all men be saved. This is his will, by way of distinction and preeminence. Jesus came to do this will. He came as the Savior, as the Savior of all men. He came as the good Shepherd, to seek and save that which was lost. He came to save all men, not only those who lived on the earth while he was here, but all who lived before, and all who have since lived, and all who shall live. Jesus gave himself a ransom for all; he tasted death for every man; and unto him, at last, every knee shall bow, and every tongure shall confess him Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Such is the way in which Jesus does the will of God. 10. The will of God cannot be resisted. He doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou? Dan. 4:35. Who can resist a being of Almighty power? What God wills to take place, must take place. He wills the salvation of all men because it is right. A God of purity cannot desire endless sin and rebellion. If he wills the salvation of all men, he wills all the means by which it shall be accomplished; it must therefore take place
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