A90278:347
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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The Sum is: I conceive that all the intermediate Effects of the Death of Christ, tending to its ultimate Procurement of the Glory of God, are all in respect of his death immediate; that is, with such an immediation as attends Moral Causes: Now these concerning them for whom he died, as they are not immediately bestowed on them (the ultimate Attingency of the Cause, and the first Rise of the Effect, lying in an intervening Compact) so not simul, at once neither: though simul, and a like procured: the Cause of this, being that Relation, Coherence, and Causality, which the Lord hath appointed between the several Effects (or rather parts of the same Effect) of the death of Christ, in reference to the main, and ultimate End to be thereby attained: as at large I have discussed: Lib. 2. Cap. 1. p. 52, 53, &c. In one word, The first Effect of the Death of Christ in this sense, is the first Fruit of Election: For, for the Procuring▪ and Purchasing of the Fruits thereof, and them alone, did Christ die.
The Sum is: I conceive that all the intermediate Effects of the Death of Christ, tending to its ultimate Procurement of the Glory of God, are all in respect of his death immediate; that is, with such an immediation as attends Moral Causes: Now these concerning them for whom he died, as they are not immediatly bestowed on them (the ultimate Attingency of the Cause, and the first Rise of the Effect, lying in an intervening Compact) so not simul, at once neither: though simul, and a like procured: the Cause of this, being that Relation, Coherence, and Causality, which the Lord hath appointed between the several Effects (or rather parts of the same Effect) of the death of Christ, in reference to the main, and ultimate End to be thereby attained: as at large I have discused: Lib. 2. Cap. 1. p. 52, 53, &c. In one word, The first Effect of the Death of Christ in this sense, is the first Fruit of Election: For, for the Procuring▪ and Purchasing of the Fruits thereof, and them alone, did Christ die.
If I mistake not, Mr Baxter himself is not settled fully in this Persuasion, that the suspension of the Rigorous Execution of the Law, is the most immediate Effect of the Death of Christ: for pag. 52. these words which he useth [God the Father doth accept the Sufferings and Merits of his Son, as a full satisfaction to his violated Law, and as a valuable Consideration upon which he will wholly acquit and forgive the Offenders themselves, and receive them again into favour, so that they will but receive his Son upon the terms expressed in the Gospel] seems to place the ultimate Efficacy of the Death of Christ in Gods acceptation of it, as to our good, on the Condition of Faith, and Obedience.