A90278:308
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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2 The Death of Christ purposed, and accounted effectual (as before) God can agreeable to his infinite Justice, Wisdom, Truth, and appointment, make out unto sinners ⟨p. 51⟩for whom Christ died, or was to die, all those good things, which he before purposed, and Willed by such means to them: those things being purchased, and procured, and all hinderances of bestowing them, being removed, by that Satisfaction, and Merit, which by free Compact, he Agreed, and Consented should be in that Death of Christ.
2 The Death of Christ purposed, and accounted effectual (as before) God can agreeable to his infinite Justice, Wisdome, Truth, and appointment, make out unto sinners ⟨p. 51⟩for whom Christ died, or was to die, all those good things, which he before purposed, and Willed by such means to them: those things being purchased, and procured, and all hinderances of bestowing them, being removed, by that Satisfaction, and Merit, which by free Compact, he Agreed, and Consented should be in that Death of Christ.
3 That as the making out of all spiritual blessings, first purposed by the Father, then purchased by the Son, that they might be bestowed Condecently to divine Justice; God hath reserved it to his own Sovereign disposal. That it be done, so that they for whom this whole Dispensation is appointed, may really enjoy the Fruits of it, is all, that necessarily is included, either in the Purpose, or Purchase.
Hence it is that the discharge of the Debtor, doth not immediately follow the Payment of the Debt by Christ, not because that Payment is refusable; but because in that very Covenant, and Compact, from whence it is that the Death of Christ, is a Payment; God reserveth to himself this Right, and Liberty, to discharge the Debtor, when, and how he pleaseth. I mean as to Times and Seasons; for otherwise, the means of actual freedom, is procured by that Payment, though not considered merely as a Payment, which denotes only Satisfaction, but as it had adjoined Merit also.