A90278:515
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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This being the sum and plain Intendment of that place, I suppose there will not need any operous Endeavour to remove the Objections that are laid against it: And therefore to that before expressed, I say, Christ hath actually and ipso facto procured our Deliverance: Hence we have actual right unto it, but not actual possession of it: And where the difficulty of this should rest, I know not. Men may as oft as they please create Contradictions in their own minds, and entangle themselves with Doubts in the Knots which themselves have tied. But,
This being the sum and plain Intendment of that place, I suppose there will not need any operous Endeavour to remove the Objections that are laid against it: And therefore to that before expressed, I say, Christ hath actually and ipso facto procured our Deliverance: Hence we have actual right unto it, but not actual possession of it: And where the difficulty of this should rest, I know not. Men may as oft as they please create Contradictions in their own minds, and entangle themselves with Doubts in the Knots which themselves have tyed. But,
2 (Saith he) Knowledge and Possession of a Deliverance are far different things.
Answ. 1 He maketh them so, who plainly intimates, That the Reason why it is not apprehended, is, Because it is not possessed: and always speaks disjunctively of them.
Answ. 1 He maketh them so, who plainly intimates, That the Reason why it is not apprehended, is, Because it is not possessed: and alwayes speaks disjunctively of them.