A90278:490
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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Reply. 1 I pass the 1, and 2, Exceptions, notwithstanding, that of Gods not esteeming of us as in Christ upon his Performance of the Acts of his Mediation for us, might admit of some consideration.
2 The Inference here couched, That these things are the immediate Effects of Christs Spirit on us, therefore the distant and mediate Effects of his death for us, is very weak and unconcluding. The death of Christ procureth these things as a Cause Moral and Impelling: the Spirit worketh as an Efficient, and therefore the same thing may be the immediate Effect of them both, according to their several kinds of Efficacy. And so indeed they are. Our actual Conversion, the Efficient whereof is the Spirit, is the immediate procurement of the Merit of Christ: see this at large in my Treatise opposed. I know not any man that hath run out into more wide mistakes about the immediate Effects of the death of Christ, than Mr Baxter, who pretends to so much Accurateness in this Particular.
3 He saith (ads Mr Baxter) Christ hath redeemed us from the Curse, being made a Curse for us.
Answ. I explained before how far we are freed by Redemption: He hath restored us, that is, paid the price, but with no intent that we should by that Redemption, be immediately or absolutely freed.