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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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If it be so, I know no reason why I was plucked in to the following Dispute, nor why M. Baxter should cast away so many Pages of his Book, upon that which is nothing at all to the business he had in hand.
But though there be nothing to this purpose, Page 137 of my Book, the place he was sent to, yet Page 140 there is: As also something contrary to what is expressed in the former Place, which he intimates in these words;
In Page 140, he states the Question far otherwise, (and yet supposeth it the same) viz. Whether Christ paid the idem, or the tantundum? which he interpreteth thus, (that which is not the same, nor equivalent unto it, but only in the Gracious acceptation of the Creditor: Now what he means by (not equivalent) I cannot tell.
1 If he mean (not of equal value) then he fights with a shadow: He wrongeth Grotius (for ought I can find in him) who teacheth no such Doctrine: However I do not so use to English (solutio tantidem.) But if he mean that it is not equivalent, in procuring it's end ipso ⟨p. 7⟩facto, delivering the Debtor, without the Intervention of a new Concession or Contract of the Creditor (as solutio ejusdem doth) then I confess Grotius is against him, and so am I.