A90278:56
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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.
So also (God's Gracious acceptance) is either in accepting less in value then was due, and so remitting the rest without payment, (this I plead not for) or else it is his accepting a refusable payment, which though equal in value, yet he may choose to accept according to the tenor of the Obligation: This is Gracious acceptance which Grotius maintaineth: and so do I: and so distinguish betwixt solutio, and satisfactio, payment and satisfaction. Thus far he.