A90278:459
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Again, Absolution may be considered, either as a pure Act of the Will of God in it self, or as it is received, believed, apprehended, in, and by the soul of the Guilty. For Absolution in the first sense, it is evident it must proceed believing: as a discharge from the Effects of Anger, naturally proceeds all Collation of any fruits of Love, such as is Faith.
Again, Absolution may be considered, either as a pure Act of the Will of God in it self, or as it is received, beleeved, apprehended, in, and by the soul of the Guilty. For Absolution in the first sense, it is evident it must proceed beleeving: as a discharge from the Effects of Anger, naturally proceeds all Collation of any fruits of Love, such as is Faith.
Object. But if God account Christ unto, and bestow him upon a Sinner before Believing, and upon that Account, absolve him from the Obligation unto Death and Hell which for sin he lies under, what wants this of complete Justification?
Object. But if God account Christ unto, and bestow him upon a Sinner before Beleeving, and upon that Account, absolve him from the Obligation unto Death and Hell which for sin he lies under, what wants this of compleat Justification?
Answ. Much every way.