A90293:256
Theomachia autexousiastikē
Theomachia autexousiastikē: or, A display of Arminianism. Being a discovery of the old Pelagian idol free-will, with the new goddess contingency, advancing themselves, into the throne of the God of heaven to the prejudice of his grace, providence, and supreme dominion over the children of men. Wherein the main errors of the Arminians are laid open, by which they are fallen off from the received doctrine of all the reformed churches, with their opposition in divers particulars to the doctrine established in the Church of England. Discovered out of their own writings and confessions, and confuted by the Word of God. / By John Owen, Master of Arts of Queens College in Oxon.Theomachia autexousiastikē: or, A display of Arminianisme. Being a discovery of the old Pelagian idol free-will, with the new goddesse contingency, advancing themselves, into the throne of the God of heaven to the prejudice of his grace, providence, and supreme dominion over the children of men. Wherein the maine errors of the Arminians are laid open, by which they are fallen off from the received doctrine of all the reformed churches, with their opposition in divers particulars to the doctrine established in the Church of England. Discovered out of their owne writings and confessions, and confuted by the Word of God. / By Iohn Owen, Master of Arts of Queens Colledge in Oxon.
London: printed by I.L. for Phil. Stephens, 1643
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Secondly, see what the Scripture [Greek or Hebrew], expressly assigneth, as the proper end and immediate effect, (according to the purpose of God, and his own intention) of the effusion of the blood of Jesus Christ, and you shall find that he intended by it, to take away the sins of many, to make his soul an offering for sin, that he might see his seed, that the counsel of God, might prosper in his ⟨p. 103⟩hand: Isaiah 53. to be a ransom for many, Matth. 20. 28. to bear the sins of many: Heb. 9. 28. he bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we should live unto righteousness, 1 Pet. 2. 24. that we might become the righteousness of God in him, 2 Cor. 5. 21. thereby reconciling us unto God, vers. 19. he died, to reconcile us unto God, in the body of his flesh, through death, that we might be holy and unblameable, Colos. 1. 21, 22. to purge our sins, Heb. 1. 3. to obtain an everlasting redemption for us, Heb. 9. 12. so that if Christ by his death obtained what he did intend: he hath purchased for us, not only a possibility of salvation; but holiness, righteousness, reconciliation with God, justification, freedom from the guilt, and condemning power of sin: everlasting redemption, eternal life, and glory in heaven.
Secondly, see what the Scripture 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, expresly assigneth, as the proper end and immediate effect, (according to the purpose of God, and his owne intention) of the effusion of the blood of Iesus Christ, and you shall finde that he intended by it, to take away the sinnes of many, to make his soule an offering for sinne, that he might see his seed, that the counsell of God, might prosper in his