A90278:421
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: In that Undertaking, he Accomplished all that was of him required. Joh. 17. 4.
2; That which is Merited and Procured for any one, thereunto he for whom it is procured, certainly hath a Right. That which is obtained for me is mine in actual right, though not perhaps in actual Possession. The thing that is obtained, is granted by him of whom it is obtained, and that unto them for whom it is obtained. In some sense or other, that is a man's, which is procured for him. In saying it is procured for him, we say no less. If this then be not in Respect of Possession, it must be in Respect of Right. Now all the Fruits of the Death of Christ are obtained and procured by his Merit for them, for whom he died. He OBTAINS for them eternal Redemption. Heb. 9. 12. purchasing them with his own Blood. Act. 20. 28. Heb. 2. 14. 1 Pet. 1. 18. Gal. 1. 4. Rev. 14. 3, 4.
The very Nature of Merit described by the Apostle, Rom. 4. 4. infers no less. Where Merit intercedes, the Effect is reckoned as of debt: That which is my due debt, I have a Right unto. The Fruits of the Death of Christ, are the Issues of Merit, (bottomed on Gods gracious Acceptation) and reckoned as of debt.