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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
There are scarce more lines, 1then mistakes in this Discourse: Some of them may be touched on.
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1 Effects are to be Considered with Respect to their Causes. Causes are Real, or Moral. Real, or Physical Causes, produce their Effects immediately, either Immediatione suppositi, or Virtutis: Unto them the subject must be Existent. I speak not of creating power, where the Act produceth its Object.
Moral Causes do never immediately acting their own ⟨p. 55⟩Effects, nor have any immediate influence into them: There is between such Causes, and their Effects, the intervention of some 3d Thing, previous to them both, viz. Proportion, Constitution, Law, Covenant, which takes in the Cause, and lets out the Effect: And this for all Circumstances of where, how, when, suitable to the limitations in them expressed, or implied: with the Nature of the things themselves.
Moral Causes do never immediately acting their own ⟨p. 55⟩Effects, nor have any immediate influence into them: There is between such Causes, and their Effects, the intervention of some 3d Thing, previous to them both, viz. Proportion, Constitution, Law, Covenant, which takes in the Cause, and lets out the Effect: And this for all Circumstances of where, how, when, suitable to the limitations in them expressed, or implyed: with the Nature of the things themselves.