A90278:108
Of the death of Christ, the price he paid, and the purchase he made.…
Of the death of Christ, the price he paid, and the purchase he made. Or, the satisfaction, and merit of the death of Christ cleared, the universality of redemption thereby oppugned: and the doctrine concerning these things formerly delivered in a treatise against universal redemption vindicated from the exceptions, and objections of Mr Baxter. / By J. Owen, minister of the gospel.Of the death of Christ, the price he paid, and the purchase he made. Or, the satisfaction, and merit of the death of Christ cleered, the universality of redemption thereby oppugned: and the doctrine concerning these things formerly delivered in a treatise against universal redemption vindicated from the exceptions, and objections of Mr Baxter. / By J. Owen, minister of the gospel.
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1650
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A Payment is refusable either absolutely and in it self, or upon supposal: The Death of Christ considered absolutely and in it self, may be said to be refusable as to be made a Payment; not a refusable payment: and that, not because not refusable, but because not a payment. Nothing can possibly tend to the procurement and compassing of any End by the way of Payment, with the Lord, but what is built upon some free Compact, Promise, or Obligation of his Own. But now consider it as an Issue flowing from divine ⟨p. 15⟩Constitution, making it a payment, and so it was no way refusable, as to the compassing of the End appointed. Thus also, as to the Obligation of the Law, for the fulfilling thereof, it was refusable in respect of the person paying, not in respect of the payment made: That former respect being also taken off by divine Constitution, and Relaxation of the Law as to that, it becometh wholly unrefusable: that is, As it was paid it was so; for satisfaction was made thereby upon the former supposals of Constitution and Relaxation.
A Payment is refusable either absolutly and in it self, or upon supposal: The Death of Christ considered absolutly and in it self, may be said to be refusable as to be made a Payment; not a refusable payment: and that, not because not refusable, but because not a payment. Nothing can possibly tend to the procurement and compassing of any End by the way of Payment, with the Lord, but what is built upon some free Compact, Promise, or Obligation of his Own. But now consider it as an Issue flowing from divine ⟨p. 15⟩Constitution, making it a payment, and so it was no way refusable, as to the compassing of the End appointed. Thus also, as to the Obligation of the Law, for the fulfilling thereof, it was refusable in respect of the person paying, not in respect of the payment made: That former respect being also taken off by divine Constitution, and Relaxation of the Law as to that, it becometh wholly unrefusable: that is, As it was paid it was so; for satisfaction was made thereby upon the former supposals of Constitution and Relaxation.