Quoting Charles H. Spurgeon:
We hold that Christ did not redeem every man, but only redeemed those men who will ultimately attain unto eternal life.
We do not believe that he redeemed the damned. We do not believe that he poured out his life blood for souls already in hell.
We never can imagine that Christ suffered in the room and stead of all men, and that then afterwards these same men have to suffer for themselves.
We do not believe that Christ pays their debts, and then God makes them pay their debts again a second time.
We hold to this – that Christ laid down his life for his sheep, and that his laying down his life for the sheep involved and secured the salvation of every one of them. (No. 572, Romans 11:36)
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