A90278:409
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1 That which ariseth from the Nature of the Things themselves: As an Eye for an Eye, a Tooth for a Tooth, &c. 2 That which ariseth from a Proportion condescended unto, by Condict, Agreement, Covenant, or Common Consent. Dupliciter est aliquid adaequatum: uno modo ex natura ipsius rei: alio modo cum est Commensuratum ex condicto sive ex commune placito: Aqui.
In the first Sense, as to a Right that should accrue unto the Creatures in respect of God, from the Commensuration of the things themselves, we showed before that it cannot be. It must be from some grant, Compact, Covenant, or the like, from whence a Right in Reference to the Faithfulness or Righteousness of God, may arise.
In the first Sense, as to a Right that should accrew unto the Creatures in respect of God, from the Commensuration of the things themselves, we shewed before that it cannot be. It must be from some grant, Compact, Covenant, or the like, from whence a Right in Reference to the Faithfulnesse or Righteousnesse of God, may arise.
The Right then whereof we speak, which they for whom Christ died, have to the things which by his Death are procured, consists in that Equity, Proportion, and Equality, which upon the free Compact, Constitution, and Consent of God the Father, is, between the Death of Christ and their Enjoyment of the Fruits of that Death. It is just and equal, that they should enjoy the Fruits of his Death in due time. Neither is the Right of any Man, to any Thing, any more, but such a Frame and Order of things, that it is just either from the Nature of the Things themselves, or from common Consent and Agreement, That he should enjoy that thing. This is the Right whereof we speak: which in their sense the very Socinians grant. Christus Jus quoddam ad obtinendam remissionem peccatorum & salutem (morte sua) nobis dedit. Crellius, adu. Groti. Cap. 1.