A90278:415
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, There is the Merit of the Death of Christ, and that ⟨p. 72⟩Principally intendeth the Glory of God in our enjoying those good things whereof it is the Merit or desert. And this is the Foundation of that Right whereof we treat. What Christ hath Merited for us, it is just and equal we should have; that is, We have Right unto it: and this before Believing. Faith gives us actual Possession as to some Part, and a new Pactional right, as to the whole; but this Right, or that equalling of things upon divine Constitution (Jus est operatio illa qua sit aequalitas: Peasant. in Tom. 22. ae. q. 57.) whereby it becomes Just and Right that we should obtain the things Purchased by it, is from the Merit of Christ alone. What Christ hath Merited is so far granted, as that they for whom it is so Merited have a Right unto it.
2, There is the Merit of the Death of Christ, and that ⟨p. 72⟩Principally intendeth the Glory of God in our enjoying those good things whereof it is the Merit or desert. And this is the Foundation of that Right whereof we treat. What Christ hath Merited for us, it is just and equal we should have; that is, We have Right unto it: and this before Beleeving. Faith gives us actual Possession as to some Part, and a new Pactional right, as to the whole; but this Right, or that equalling of things upon divine Constitution (Jus est operatio illa qua sit aequalitas: Pesant. in Tom. 22. ae. q. 57.) whereby it becomes Just and Right that we should obtain the things Purchased by it, is from the Merit of Christ alone. What Christ hath Merited is so far granted, as that they for whom it is so Merited have a Right unto it.
The Sum then of what we have to prove, is,