So, too, there are others who promise this deliverance from eternal punishment, not, indeed, to all men , but only to those who have been washed in Christian baptism , and who become partakers of the body of Christ , no matter how they have lived, or what heresy or impiety they have fallen into. They ground this opinion on the saying of Jesus , This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that if any man eat thereof, he shall not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If a man eat of this bread, he shall live forever. 23John 6:50-51 Therefore, say they, it follows that these persons must be delivered from death eternal , and at one time or other be introduced to everlasting life.
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