A90278:220
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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In an Answer to an Argument of Grotius about the Satisfaction of Christ, denying that by it we are ipso facto delivered from the Penalty due to Sin: I Affirmed that by his Death, Christ did actually, or ipso facto deliver us from the Curse, by being made a Curse for us; and this is that, which gave occasion, to that Imputation before mentioned.
To clear my mind in this, I must desire the Reader to consider, That my Answer is but a Denial of Grotius his Assertions: In what kind, and respect Grotius doth there deny that we are ipso facto delivered by the Satisfaction of Christ, in that sense, and that only, do I affirm that we are so: otherwise there were no Contradictions between his Assertion, and mine, not speaking ad idem, and eodem respectu.
To cleer my mind in this, I must desire the Reader to consider, That my Answer is but a Denial of Grotius his Assertions: In what kind, and respect Grotius doth there deny that we are ipso facto delivered by the Satisfaction of Christ, in that sense, and that only, do I affirm that we are so: otherwise there were no Contradictions between his Assertion, and mine, not speaking ad idem, and eodem respectu.
The truth is, Grotius doth not in that place whence this Argument is taken, fully, or clearly manifest, what he intends by a deliverance which is not actual, or ipso facto: and therefore I made bold to Interpret his Mind, by the Analogy of that Opinion wherewith he was throughly infected about the Death of Christ. According to that, Christ delivering us by his Satisfaction, not actually, nor ipso facto, is so to make Satisfaction for us, as that we shall have no Benefit by his Death, but upon the performance of a Condition, which himself by that Death of his, did ⟨p. 34⟩not absolutely procure. This was that which I opposed and therefore affirmed, That Christ by his Death did actually, or ipso facto, deliver us.