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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 Mr Baxter go on with his Intentions about a tract concerning universal Redemption, perhaps we may have these things cleared: and yet we must tell him before hand, That if he draw forth nothing on that Subject but what is done by Amiraldus, and like things to them, he will give little Satisfaction to learned and stable men, upon the Issue of his undertaking.
If Mr Baxter go on with his Intentions about a tract concerning universal Redemption, perhaps we may have these things cleered: and yet we must tell him before hand, That if he draw forth nothing on that Subject but what is done by Amiraldus, and like things to them, he will give little Satisfaction to learned and stable men, upon the Issue of his undertaking.
I shall not presume to take another mans Task out of his hand, especially one's who is so every way able to go through with it; Else I durst undertake to demonstrate that Treatise of Amiraldus, mentioned by Mr Baxter, to be full of weak and sophistical Argumentations, absurd Contradictions, vain strife of Words; and in sum to be, as birthless a tympanous Endeavour, as ever so learned a man was engaged in.
For the present, being by Gods Providence removed for a Season from my Native soil, attended with more then ordinary weaknesses and infirmities, separated from my Library, burdened with manifold Employments, with constant Preaching to a numerous multitude, of as thirsting a People after the Gospel, as ever yet I conversed withal; it sufficeth me, That I have obtained this Mercy, Briefly and plainly to Vindicate the Truth from mistakes, and something further to unfold the Mystery of our Redemption in Christ, all with so facile and placid an Endeavour, as is usually upon the Spirits of men, in the familiar writings of one Friend to another. That it hath been my Aim to seek after Truth, and to keep close to the form of wholesome words delivered to us, will (I hope) appear to them that love Truth, and Peace.