A90278:238
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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dTo measure the Almighty by the Standard of a man, and to frame in the mind a mutable Idol, instead of the Eternal, Unchangeable God, is a Thing that the fleshly Reasonings of dark understandings are prone unto. Feigns the Lord in one Instant Angry, afterwards promising to cease to be so, then in another instant laying down his Anger, and taking up a contrary affection, and you seem to me, to do no less.
What it may be esteemed in Law, which was that Authors faculty, I know not: but suppose in Divinity, that ⟨p. 37⟩(notwithstanding the manifold Attempts of some [Greek or Hebrew] in most heads of Religion)e the ascribing unto the most holy, things alien, and opposite unto his glorious nature, is by common consent, accounted no less then fblasphemy: whither this be here don, or no, may easily appear. I hope then without the offence of any, I may be allowed to call those Dictates of Grotius to the Rule, and Measure of Truth.
What it may be esteemed in Law, which was that Authors faculty, I know not: but suppose in Divinity, that