A90278:69
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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But this I was so far from once mistrusting before, as that being informed of it, I cannot as yet apprehend it to be so.
In Page 137 I lay down a distinction in general about the several kinds of satisfaction, which page 140 I plainly apply to the satisfaction of Christ, without any new, much less changed stating of a Question.
My whole aim in that Enquiry, was to search out that kind of punishment, which Christ underwent in making Satisfaction for sin, viz. Whether it were the same that was threatened to the Transgressors themselves, or whether something else which God accepted in Lieu thereof, relaxing the Law, not only as to the Person suffering, but also as to the Penalty to be undergone?
My whole aim in that Enquiry, was to search out that kind of punishment, which Christ underwent in making Satisfaction for sin, viz. Whether it were the same that was threatned to the Transgressors themselves, or whether something else which God accepted in Lieu thereof, relaxing the Law, not only as to the Person suffering, but also as to the Penalty to be undergone?
The First of these (and that with the concurrent suffrage of far the greatest number of Protestant Divines) I