A90278:285
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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If Mr Baxter intendeth those latter words (There could be no treating on new terms, before the OLD OBLIGATION was satisfied, or suspended) as a proof of his former Assertion, he will fail in his intendment, as I suppose. For,
If Mr Baxter intendeth those latter words (There could be no treating on new terms, before the OLD OBLIGATION was satisfied, or suspended) as a proof of his former Assertion, he will fail in his intendment, as I supose. For,
1 Treating on new terms, denoteth either consilium in eundi foederis, or exequendi: If the First, it is nothing but the Purpose of God to save his Elect by pardoning Mercy, for the praise of his glorious Grace: This is wholly Antecedent to any Efficiency of the death, and Satisfaction of Christ, as being of mere, and absolute Grace, Jer. 31. 3. Hab. 8. 7, 8.
1 Treating on new terms, denoteth either consilium in eundi foederis, or exequendi: If the First, it is nothing but the Purpose of God to save his Elect by pardoning Mercy, for the praise of his glorious Grace: This is wholly Antecedent to any Efficiency of the death, and Satisfaction of Christ, as being of meer, and absolute Grace, Jer. 31. 3. Hab. 8. 7, 8.
If the Latter be intended, or the actual taking of Sinners into Covenant, by working an acceptance of it upon their Spirits, and obedience to the Condition of it, in their hearts, then though the satisfaction of Christ be antecedent here unto, yet it is not thence, antecedent to the new Covenant: For the new Covenant, and taking into Covenant, are distinct.