A90278:521
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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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,
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 Counsellour? 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 Bloud of Jesus, which lies at the bottome of all these Disputes) is a most Anti-Evangelical Assertion, and diametrally opposed to the whole way of Gods dealing with Sinners. But he addes,
4 Neither can it be understood how God can so long deny us the Possession of Heaven, if we had such ⟨p. 91⟩actual absolute Right so long ago, which seems to me to express a jus ad rem, and in re.
Answ. 1 I love not to enquire into the Reason of Gods actings,