A90278:200
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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5 He saith God had power so far to relax his own LAW, as to have the name of a Surety put into the Obligation, which before was not there, and then to require the whole debt of that Surety.
And what saith Grotius more then this? If the same things in the Obligation be paid, then the Law is Executed: and if Executed, then not Relaxed. Here he confesseth. That the Sureties name was not in the Obligation, and that God Relaxed the Law to put it in. Now the main business that Grotius drives at there, is to prove this Relaxation of the Law, and the non-Execution of it on the Offenders threatened. Thus far Mr Baxter.
And what saith Grotius more then this? If the same things in the Obligation be paid, then the Law is Executed: and if Executed, then not Relaxed. Here he confesseth. That the Sureties name was not in the Obligation, and that God Relaxed the Law to put it in. Now the main businesse that Grotius drives at there, is to prove this Relaxation of the Law, and the non-Execution of it on the Offenders threatned. Thus far Mr Baxter.
1 All this proves not at all the things intended,1 neither doth any Concession here mentioned, in the least take off from the main Assertion I maintain, as is apparent any at first view. 2 Grotius is so far from saying more then I do, that he says not so much. 3 This Paralogism if the Law be Executed, then not Relaxed; and on the contrary, ariseth-merely from a non-Consideration of the nature of Contradictories: The Opposition fancied here is not [Greek or Hebrew], as is required of Contradictions: 4 The Observation, that Crown main business is other, discovereth the Bottom of M. B. his mistake. Even a supposal that I should oppose ⟨p. 29⟩