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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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Answ. 1 That God should be conceived angry after the manner of men, or with any such kind of Passion, is gross Anthropomorphism; as bad, if not worse, then the assigning of him a bodily shape.g The Anger of God is a pure Act of his Will, whereby he will effect▪ and inflict the Effects of Anger. Now what is before the fore-sight of the Death of Christ, is certainly from Eternity. Gods Anger must respect either the purpose of God,2 or the Effects of it. The latter it cannot be, for they are undoubtedly all temporal. It must be then his purpose from Eternity to inflict punishment,3 that is the Effect of Anger. This then is the First thing in the business of Redemption assigned by Grotius, unto the Lord. viz. He purposed from Eternity, to inflict punishment on Sinners: and on what sinners? even those, for whom he gives Christ to die, and afterwards receives into favour, as he expresseth himself. Behold here a Mystery of Vorstian Theology: God changing his eternal purposes.h This Arminius at first could not down withal, inferring from hence, That the Will of God differed not from his Essence, 5that every act thereof, is, ⟨p. 38⟩1 Most Simple: 2 Infinite: 3 Eternal: 4 Immutable: 5 Holy. Reason it self would fain speak in this Cause, but that the Scriptures do so abound, many places are noted in the Margin. Ja. 1. 17. 2 Tim. 2. 19. Ps. 33. 9, 10, 11. Acts. 15. 18. &c. may be added. A mutable god, is of the dunghill.
Answ. 1 That God should be conceived angry after the manner of men, or with any such kind of Passion, is grosse Anthropomorphisme; as bad, if not worse, then the assigning of him a bodily shape.