A90278:293
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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For the First, it is manifest:
1 From that Act of Gods Will, which to this Love is Contradistinct: What change is wrought in the Loved, or Elected, by the Purpose of God according to Election; an answerable Change must be wrought in the hated, and appointed to condemnation, by the Decree of Reprobation: Now that this should really alter the Condition of men, and actually dispose them under the Consequences of that Purpose, cannot be granted.
2 Analogy from other Eternal Purposes of God, gives a Demonstration hereof. The Eternal Purposes of the divine Will, for the Creation of the World out of Nothing; left that Nothing, as very nothing as ever, until an Act of Almighty Power gave (in the beginning) Existence, and Being to the things, that are seen. Things have their certain Fructurition, not instant actual Existence from the Eternal Purposes of God, concerning them.
2 Anallogie from other Eternal Purposes of God, gives a Demonstration hereof. The Eternal Purposes of the divine Will, for the Creation of the World out of Nothing; left that Nothing, as very nothing as ever, until an Act of Almighty Power gave (in the beginning) Existence, and Being to the things, that are seen. Things have their certain Fructurition, not instant actual Existence from the Eternal Purposes of God, concerning them.