A90278:267
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 particular of the Will of God towards them for whom Christ died, and their state, and Condition as Considered Antecedanous to the Death of Christ, and all Efficiency thereof.
FIRST then, the Habitude of God towards man, Antecedent to all fore-sight of the Death of Christ, is an Act of Supreme Sovereignty, and Dominion, appointing them, by means suited to the manifestation of his Glorious Properties, according to his Infinitely Wise, and Free Disposal, to Eternal Life, and Salvation, for the praise of his glorious Grace.
FIRST then, the Habitude of God towards man, Antecedent to all fore-sight of the Death of Christ, is an Act of Supream Soveraignty, and Dominion, appointing them, by means suited to the manifestation of his Glorious Properties, according to his Infinitely Wise, and Free Disposal, to Eternal Life, and Salvation, for the praise of his glorious Grace.
That this Salvation was never but one, or of one kind, consisting in the same kind of Happiness, in reference unto Gods appointment, needs not much proving. To think that God appointed one kind of Condition for man if he had continued in Innocency, and another upon his Recovery from the Fall; is to think, That his Prescience is but Conjectural, and his Will alterable.
That this Salvation was never but one, or of one kind, consisting in the same kind of Happiness, in reference unto Gods appointment, needs not much proving. To think that God appointed one kind of Condition for man if he had continued in Innocency, and another upon his Recovery from the Fall; is to think, That his Praescience is but Conjectural, and his Will alterable.