A90278:280
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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Had he attempted the proof of this Assertion, perhaps he would have found it a more difficult Undertaking, then barely to Affirm it. Some few REASONS to the contrary, that present themselves, I shall briefly set down.
Had he attempted the proof of this Assertion, perhaps he would have found it a more difficult Undertaking, then barely to Affirme it. Some few REASONS to the contrary, that present themselves, I shall briefly set down.
1 Christ himself with his whole Satisfaction, and Merit, is included in the Covenant: therefore his Satisfaction is not antecedent to the COVENANT. The First appeareth, in that all Promises of Pardoning Mercy are in, and of this new Covenant. Heb. 8. 10. 12. but now, in them, as the foundation of that Mercy, is Christ himself with his SATISFACTION comprised, Gen. 3. 15. Esa. 9. 6, 7.
2 He, who in all that he is, as made unto us, was the Mediator of the new Covenant, and whose Merit, and Satisfaction in all that they are, are appointed for the procuring the Mercies of the NEW COVENANT, his Satisfaction is not antecedent to the Covenant, Heb. 7. 22. Chap. 8. 6. &c.
2 He, who in all that he is, as made unto us, was the Mediator of the new Covanant, and whose Merit, and Satisfaction in all that they are, are appointed for the procuring the Mercies of the NEW COVENANT, his Satisfaction is not antecedent to the Covenant,