A90278:43
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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But whereas the learned Author hath to make straight the work he had in hand, endeavoured to cast some part ⟨p. 4⟩of the Doctrine of the Satisfaction, and Redemption of Christ, as by me delivered, into a crooked Frame, and that with some such passages of Censure, as might have been omitted, without losing the least Grace of his Book, or Stile: I shall with the Lords assistance, endeavour to reinforce what of Truth hath been thereby assaulted in vain, and more especially take occasion from thence further to unfold those Mysteries, which to our apprehension, are wrapped up in no small darkness: there being in them some things difficult, and hard to be understood.
But whereas the learned Author hath to make streight the work he had in hand, endeavoured to cast some part ⟨p. 4⟩of the Doctrine of the Satisfaction, and Redemption of Christ, as by me delivered, into a crooked Frame, and that with some such passages of Censure, as might have been omitted, without losing the least Grace of his Book, or Stile: I shall with the Lords assistance, endeavour to reinforce what of Truth hath been thereby assaulted in vain, and more especially take occasion from thence further to unfold those Mysteries, which to our apprehension, are wrapped up in no small darkness: there being in them some things difficult, and hard to be understood.
The First thing then, which that learned Divine chose to stand in distance from me in, is concerning the nature of the payment made for sin by the blood of Christ; Whether it be ejusdem, or tantidem; and of the Sense of those Expressions, is our First Debate: In handling whereof, I hope I shall not only satisfy the Reader as to the Truth of what I had before written; but also further clear the whole Doctrine of Satisfaction, with especial reference to the kind of the Payment that Christ made, and Punishment which he underwent.
The First thing then, which that learned Divine chose to stand in distance from me in, is concerning the nature of the payment made for sin by the bloud of Christ; Whether it be ejusdem, or tantidem; and of the Sense of those Expresions, is our First Debate: In handling whereof, I hope I shall not only satisfie the Reader as to the Truth of what I had before written; but also further cleer the whole Doctrine of Satisfaction, with especial reference to the kind of the Payment that Christ made, and Punishment which he underwent.