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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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2 That I have abundantly proved in the Treatise mentioned, That if the Fruits of the Death of Christ, be to be communicated unto us upon Condition, and that Condition to be among those Fruits, and be it self to be absolutely communicated upon no Condition, then all the Fruits of the Death of Christ, are as absolutely procured for them, for whom he Died, as if no Condition had been prescribed; for these things come all to one.
3 I have proved in the same Place, That Faith, which is this Condition, is it self procured by the Death of Christ, for them for whom he Died, to be freely bestowed on them, without the prescription of any such Condition as on whose fulfilling, the Collation of it should depend.
These things being considered (as I hoped they would have been by every one, that should undertake to Censure any thing, as to this Business in that Treatise (they being there all handled at large) it is apparent what I intended by this actual Deliverance: viz. That the Lord Jesus by the Satisfaction & Merit of his Death, & Obligation made for all, & only his Elect, hath actually, & absolutely purchased, & procured for them all Spiritual Blessings of Grace, & Glory to be made out unto them, and bestowed upon them in Gods way, ⟨p. 35⟩and Time, without dependence on any CONDITION to be by them performed, not absolutely procured for them thereby: whereby they became to have a Right unto the GOOD THINGS by him Purchased, to be in due time Possessed according to Gods Way, Method, and Appointment.
These things being considered (as I hoped they would have been by every one, that should undertake to Censure any thing, as to this Business in that Treatise (they being there all handled at large) it is apparent what I intended by this actual Deliverance: viz. That the Lord Jesus by the Satisfaction & Merit of his Death, & Obligation made for all, & only his Elect, hath actually, & absolutly purchased, & procured for them all Spiritual Blessings of Grace, & Glory to be made out unto them, and bestowed upon them in Gods way,