A90278:337
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 say, that his meaning in this is, That if Christ had not undertaken the Work of Redemption, and Satisfaction, then the Law must have had rigorous Execution upon all, and therefore this being suspended upon his undertaking of it, is the first fruit of the Death of Christ.
Notwithstanding this, 1yet that suspension (which in respect of the different Persons towards whom it is actually exercised, hath different ends) is not a Fruit, nor Effect of the Death of Christ, but a free Issue, of the same eternally wise Providence, Sovereignty, and Grace, as the Death of Christ himself is: If then by the rigorous Execution of the Law, you intend the immediate Execution of the Law in all its rigour, and punishments, this if it had been effected, could in your own Judgment have reached Adam, and Eve, and no more; and would have so reached them, as to cut off the Generation of Mankind in that Root: If so, and this be the Fruit of Christs Death, Why do you not reckon the Procreation of humane race, among those Fruits also? for had it not been for this suspension, that also had failed: which is as good a Causative Connection, as that between the Death of Christ, and this Suspension: had not he undertaken the Work of Redemption, it had not been.
- 1Answ.
If by a rigorous Execution, you intend the Penalty of the Law, inflicted in that way, which hath pleased the Will of the Law-giver by several parts, and degrees, from conception through birth, life, death, to Eternity; the Curse ⟨p. 58⟩of it being wholly incumbent in respect of desert, and making out it self, according to Gods appointment, then the suspension thereof is not the immediate Effect of the Death of Christ; which (opposing the first Arguments to the former acceptation) I further prove: If those for whom Christ died do lie under this rigorous Execution of the Law, that is the Curse of it, until some other Effect of Christs Death be wrought upon them, then that is not the first Effect of the Death of Christ: but that supposal is true: