A90278:348
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 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.
If I mistake not, Mr Baxter himself is not setled fully in this Perswasion, 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 Offendors 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.
Which, first makes the suspension of the Law to be so far from being the first effect of the Death of Christ: that the last reacheth not so far: And 2dly, the fond absurdity of this Conditional Acceptation I have before declared.
Neither am I clear to which of those Assertions, that of Page 92, (where he affirms, That some benefit by Christ the Condemned did receive) is most accommodate: neither can I easily receive what is here Asserted; if by Benefit you understand that which in respect of them is intentionally so.