A90278:134
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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The chief Argument of Grotius and Vossius (saith he) is drawn from the Tenor of the Obligation, and from the Event. The Obligation chargeth Punishment on the Offender himself. It saith [In the day thou eatest thou shalt die] And [Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things, &c.] Now if the same in the Obligation be paid, then the Law is Executed, and not Relaxed: and then every Sinner must die himself; for that is the idem, and very thing threatened: So that here, dumb alias soluit, simul aliud solvitur. The Law threatened not Christ, but us: (besides that, Christ suffered not the loss of Gods Love, nor his Image and Graces, nor eternity of Torment, of which I have spoken in the Treatise) What saith Mr Owen to any of this?
The chief Argument of Grotius and Vossius (saith he) is drawn from the Tenor of the Obligation, and from the Event. The Obligation chargeth Punishment on the Offendor himself. It saith [In the day thou eatest thou shalt die] And [Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things, &c.] Now if the same in the Obligation be paid, then the Law is Executed, and not Relaxed: and then every Sinner must die himself; for that is the idem, and very thing threatned: So that here, dum alias soluit, simul aliud solvitur. The Law threatned not Christ, but us: (besides that, Christ suffered not the loss of Gods Love, nor his Image and Graces, nor eternity of Torment, of which I have spoken in the Treatise) What saith Mr Owen to any of this?
Let the Reader observe what it is we have in hand.1 It is not the main of the Controversy Debated by Grotius wherein I do oppose him: Neither yet All in that particular whereabout the Opposition is. Now suppose (as he doth) That the punishing of the Person Offending is in the Obligation, yet I cannot but conceive that there be Two distinct things here: 1 The Constitution of the Penalty it self to be undergone. 2 The Terminating of this Penalty upon the Person Offending. For this Latter, I Assert a Relaxation of the Law, which might be done, and yet the Penalty it self in Reference to it's Constitution be ⟨p. 19⟩