A90278:93
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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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.
1 This is not here expressed, nor intimated. 2 It is nothing at all to me, who place the matter of the Satisfaction of Christ, in solution ejusdem. 3 About the End of Satisfaction in the place opposed I speak not, but only of the Nature of the Penalty undergone whereby it was made. 4 To the thing it self, I desire to enquire;
1 This is not here expressed, nor intimated. 2 It is nothing at all to me, who place the matter of the Satisfaction of Christ, in solutione ejusdem. 3 About the End of Satisfaction in the place opposed I speak not, but only of the Nature of the Penalty undergone whereby it was made. 4 To the thing it self, I desire to enquire;
1 What M. B. intends by solutio ejusdem in the business in hand? Doth he not maintain it to be the Offenders own undergoing the Penalty of the Law? What End I pray doth this obtain ipso facto? Can it be any other but the Glory of Gods Justice in the everlasting destruction of the Creature? How then can it possibly be supposed to attain the End spoken of ipso facto? If this be the only meaning of solutio ejusdem, in this sense, the End of it is distant from the End of Satisfaction [Greek or Hebrew].
1 What M. B. intends by solutio ejusdem in the businesse in hand? Doth he not maintain it to be the Offendors own undergoing the Penalty of the Law? What End I pray doth this obtain ipso facto? Can it be any other but the Glory of Gods Justice in the everlasting destruction of the Creature? How then can it possibly be supposed to attain the End spoken of ipso facto? If this be the only meaning of solutio ejusdem, in this sense, the End of it is distant from the End of Satisfaction 〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
By the laying the Penalty on Christ, that God intended the freedom of those for whom he underwent that Penalty, I suppose cannot be doubted: but in inflicting it on the Offenders themselves, that he hath any such aim, wants an Origen to assert.