A90278:535
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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The Major is evident: Gods Decree giveth no man a Personal Right to the Mercy intended him. And for the Minor, no man can produce the Scripture giving to unbelievers such a Right.
The Major is evident: Gods Decree giveth no man a Personal Right to the Mercy intended him. And for the Minor, no man can produce the Scripture giving to unbeleevers such a Right.
Answ. 1 Taking the Laws of God in the strict and proper sense,1 and it is so far from being a Truth, That what Right God gives to any, he gives it by his written Laws; that indeed the Laws of God give no Right to any one, concerning any thing, whether supernatural or otherwise. The End of the Law is not to give Right, but to exact Obedience: and that chiefly if not upon the sum, solely. The usual proper genuine signification of Gods Laws,2 being his revealed Will for our Obedience, I know not why Mr Baxter should bring them in, in the Latitude of his single Apprehension to be a Medium in an Argument. Hence,
- 1Lex aut punit, aut vetat, aut permittit, aut consulit, aut hortatur:
- 2F. de Leg. 1 Joh. 3. 4.
2 Here is not a sufficient Annumeration of Causes; the Promises of God are to be added, and those either made to us, or to any other for our Good. But,