A90278:310
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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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.
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 meerly as a Payment, which denotes only Satisfaction, but as it had adjoyned Merit also.
Therefore that Principle much used, and rested on by Mr Baxter in the Business of Satisfaction, to obviate this very difficulty, of a not immediate discharge, if Christ paid the Debt, viz. That the Satisfaction of Christ is a refusable Payment; which he presseth Page 149, 150. is neither true in it self, nor accommodate to this difficulty▪
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