A90278:378
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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3 Gods Willing Good things to us, it cannot consist in: his willing of a thing is operative of it: it is his Efficacious Energetical Will whereof we speak. When he actually willeth Grace, we have Grace: and when he Willeth Glory, we have Glory: but that concerning which we speak, is Antecedent to the actual making out of Grace, and Glory to us, being the procuring cause of them; though not of that Act of the Will of God, whereby they are bestowed.
His Justice, and Truth only remain. For Justice, that which is Commutative properly, with one Consent is removed from God. Who hath given first unto him, and it shall be rendered unto him again. 1Neither is distributive Justice to be supposed in him, antecedent to some free engagement of his own. Where no Obligation is, there cannot be so much as distributive Justice properly. All Obligation from God to the Creature, is from his own free engagement: otherwise he stands in no Relation to it, but of absolute Dominion, and Sovereignty. All the Justice of God then (we consider not the universal Rectitude of his nature, but) in reference to the Creature, is Justitia regiminis. Psal. 33. 4, 5. 1 Joh.2 1. 5. and therefore must suppose some free Constitution of his Will.
- 1Si de debitum quaeratur▪ respectu creaturae in Deum cadere non potest: nisi ex aliqua suppositione ipsi Deo voluntaria et libera: quae non potest esse nisi promissio aut pactio aliqua, ex quibus fidelitatis aut justitiae debitum oriri solet: Suares. Relect. de Lib. Div. Volu. Disp. L. Di. Sec. 2. n. 5.
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