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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 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.
The truth is, Grotius doth not in that place whence this Argument is taken, fully, or cleerly 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 Analogie 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 shal 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.
Let the Reader then here Observe:
1 That our Deliverance is to be referred to the Death of Christ, according to its own Causality; that is, as a Cause Meritorious: Now such Causes do actually, and ipso facto produce all those Effects, which immediately slow from them; not in an immediation of Time, but Causality. Look then what Effects do follow, or what things soever are procured by them, without the interposition of any other Cause in the same kind, they are said to be procured by them actually, or ipso facto.