A90278:39
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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1 I am not as yet convinced by any thing in M. Baxters Censure, and Opposition, that there was any such blameable deviation as is pretended, but rather the words of Truth, and Sobriety, clothing a Doctrine of wholesomeness; and especially, because the things pointed at are in ⟨p. 3⟩themselves weighty, and needing some exactness in the delivery, to give a right Apprehension of them: I was willing once more to attempt whether the Grace of God with me, who am less then the least of all Saints, might give any further light into the right understanding of them according to the Truth, to the advantage of any that love the Lord Jesus in sincerity.
1 I am not as yet convinced by any thing in M. Baxters Censure, and Opposition, that there was any such blameable deviation as is pretended, but rather the words of Truth, and Sobriety, cloathing a Doctrine of wholsomeness; and especially, because the things pointed at are in ⟨p. 3⟩themselves weighty, and needing some exactness in the delivery, to give a right Apprehension of them: I was willing once more to attempt whether the Grace of God with me, who am less then the least of all Saints, might give any further light into the right understanding of them according to the Truth, to the advantage of any that love the Lord Jesus in sincerity.
The true nature of the satisfaction of Christ, with the kind of Payment of our Debt by him made and accomplished, is doubtless worthy of our most serious enquiry: The right Constitution of the immediate Effects of the Death of Christ, the relation of men to the Election of God, and the Redemption of Christ, with their several states and Conditions in reference unto those Works of Grace, ought to be of no less esteem: And that not only for the nature and excellency of the things themselves, but also because a right disposal of them, gives more light into the stating and settling many other Controverted Truths about Faith, Justification, Vocation, and the like: These are the Subjects about which I am called forth in my own, or rather Truths defence.