A90278:384
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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God by free Purpose and Compact, making way for the Merit of Christ, which absolutely could be none, is obliged from the Veracity and Justice, which attends all his Engagements, to make out as in his infinite Wisdom shall seem meet; all those things which he hath set, appointed, and proposed as the Fruit and Purchase of his Death, unto all them for whom he died. And in This, rests the Merit of Christ.
Here Two things may be observed;
1 What we ascribe to the Merit of Christ: viz. The Accomplishment of that Condition, which God required to make way, that the Obligation which he had freely put upon himself, might be in actual force. And so much, (how rightly, I leave to himself to Consider) doth Mr Baxter assign to our own works: Thes. 26. p. 140.
2 The mistake of those who wind up the MERIT of Christ, as affecting God (if I may so speak) unto a Conditional Engagement, viz. That we shall be made Partakers of the Fruits of it, upon such and such Conditions, to be by us fulfilled. For,