A90278:355
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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THAT they for whom Christ died, have a right to the things which he Purchased thereby, (that is an actual Right, for so men may have, to what they have not in actual Possession) is no singular Conception of mine Our Divines freely express themselves to this Purpose.
THAT they for whom Christ died, have a right to the things which he Purchased thereby, (that is an actual Right, for so men may have, to what they have not in actual Possession) is no singular Conception of mineOur Divines freely express themselves to this Purpose.
Even the Commender, and Publisher of Grotius his Book of Satisfaction, learned Vossius himself, Affirmeth, That Christ by his Death Purchased for us a double Right: First, a Right of escaping punishment, and then a Right of obtaining the Reward.
By the way, I cannot close with his Distinction in that place, of some things, That Christ by his Life, and Death, purchased for us, and other, that he daily bestoweth: for the things he daily bestoweth, are of them, which by his Death he purchased.
My Expressions then alone are not subject to the Consequences charged on them, for Asserting a right to Life, and Salvation in them for whom Christ Died, even before believing.