A90278:395
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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2 If by any means, he that makes the Stipulation, knows infallibly, that the Condition will be fulfilled, though he to whom it is made, knows it not. In this Respect also, the Stipulation sub Conditione, introduceth an immediate Obligation, and in that regard, is co-incident with that which is only sub Termino.
Whether an Engagement upon Condition properly, without the former Respects, that is a Stipulation to an Event dubious and uncertain, can be ascribed unto God, is easy to determine. To Assert it, oppugns the whole nature of the Deity, and over-throws the Properties thereof, ⟨p. 68⟩immediately and directly. All other Stipulations under Condition are co-incident (as I said before) with that which is sub Termino only, from whence ariseth an immediate Obligation for the performance of the thing stipulated about; though there be not an immediate Action granted him unto whom it is made.
Wheither an Engagement upon Condition properly, without the former Respects, that is a Stipulation to an Event dubious and uncertain, can be ascribed unto God, is easie to determine. To Assert it, oppugnes the whole nature of the Deity, and over-throws the Properties thereof, ⟨p. 68⟩immediatly and directly. All other Stipulations under Condition are co-incident (as I said before) with that which is sub Termino only, from whence ariseth an immediate Obligation for the performance of the thing stipulated about; though there be not an immediate Action granted him unto whom it is made.
Surely they are wide, (if not very wild) who Affirm, That all the Stipulations on the part of God upon the Death of Christ are upon a Condition, which himself knows to be impossible for them to perform to whom they are made, which amongst wise men are always accounted Nugatory and Null.