So, also, with respect to all those passages in which God's grace to the world at large is presented. They are founded upon that special aspect of the atonement with which we are more immediately occupied. "Go ye into _all the world_ and preach the gospel _to every creature_." (Mark xvi.)--"God so loved _the world_, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him might not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn _the world_, but that the world through Him might be saved." (John iii. 16, 17.)--"I exhort, therefore, that first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for _all men_; for kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; who will have _all men_ to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus; who gave Himself a _ransom for all_, to be testified in due time." (1 Tim. ii. 1-6.)--"For _the grace of God_ that bringeth salvation hath appeared to _all men_." (Titus ii. 11.)--"But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that He by _the grace of God_ should taste death _for every man_." (Heb. ii. 9.)--"The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is long-suffering to usward, not willing that _any_ should perish, but that all should come to repentance." (2 Peter iii. 9.)