A90278:520
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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Answ. 1 Whether or no, or how far Knowledge gives us Possession, I shall not now Dispute: only considering in what sense Knowledge is here used; and often in the Scripture, the Deliverance also spoken of, being such, as no small part thereof consists in this Knowledge, and without it (in the seed at least) is not, I cannot but say, That such kind of Affirmations in things of this weight, are very slender proofs: Yea further, Whereas the Enjoyment of this Deliverance is either as to the Being of it, or to the Comfort of it; the Latter is given us by this Knowledge merely, the Former consists therein mainly, Joh. 17. 3.
Answ. 1 Whether or no, or how far Knowledge gives us Possession, I shall not now Dispute: only considering in what sense Knowledge is here used; and often in the Scripture, the Deliverance also spoken of, being such, as no small part thereof consists in this Knowledge, and without it (in the seed at least) is not, I cannot but say, That such kind of Affirmations in things of this weight, are very slender proofs: Yea further, Whereas the Enjoyment of this Deliverance is either as to the Being of it, or to the Comfort of it; the Latter is given us by this Knowledge meerly, the Former consists therein mainly, Joh. 17. 3.
2 Similitudes are allowed their Grains to make them Current: But yet, as our Creditors Knowledge and Satisfaction is required to our Deliverance, so not that only; but ours also, as to our actual Enjoyment of it. It is true, he could have made us quickly know it: but who hath been his Counsellor? this is left to his Sovereign and free disposal, our Deliverance being Purchased to be made out in the season thereby appointed. But, That God could have made us free, before we knew the Cause, (supposing his Constitution of the way of Salvation revealed in the Blood of Jesus, which lies at the bottom of all these Disputes) is a most Anti-Evangelical Assertion, and diametrally opposed to the whole way of Gods dealing with Sinners. But he adds,