for, and blesses His people. Amyraut's Christ offers Himself for all men without exception, but only intercedes for some (John 17:9). Scripture teaches that Christ intercedes on the basis of His atonement. Romans 8:34 links Christ's atonement to His intercession: "It is Christ that died ... who also maketh intercession for us." Paul takes it as a settled fact that those for whom Christ died are guaranteed salvation. Otherwise his rhetorical question ("Who is he that condemneth?" [Rom. 8:34]) makes no sense. On the basis of Christ's death and intercession, there is no charge against God's elect (Rom. 8:33). I John 2:1-2 also links inextricably Christ's atonement and His intercession: "We have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And he is the propitiation for our sins." When Christ enters the presence of the Father to plead for His people, He does so on the basis of the accomplished redemption (Heb. 7:25-28, 9:11-12, 24). If Christ died for all men, then He must plead for all men. Owen writes, He did not suffer for them and then refuse to intercede for them; he did not do the greater and omit the less. The price of our redemption is more precious in the eyes of God and His Son than that it should, as it were, be cast away on perishing souls, without any care taken of what becomes of them afterward. 58 Turretin writes, "It is gratuitously supposed that a universal intercession can be granted. For as he