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A90278	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.	Owen, John, 1616-1683.	1650 (1650)	Wing O783; Thomason E614_2; ESTC R206527	67,152	109

I any Reason to expect from the great endeavours which are entring the City of God with Io Triumphs any thing beyond fruitlesse Attempts to varnish over with plausible appearances formerly decryed Invectives and Reasonings whose Deformity and Nakedness have been often discovered to the lothing of them by the Saints of God so I no way doubt but that the Lord whose Truth is precious to him will continue to powre out from the rich Provision which he hath made for the use of his Church and laid it up in the Lord Jesus sutable Gifts and Abilities against all Opposition whereunto by the Craft of Satan it is exposed I shall say no more though Occasion be administred to deplore that successe which the spirit of Seduction that is gone out in this hour of Temptation hath had in prevaising upon them that live in the Earth to turn away their minds from sound Doctrine and the forme of wholsome words Only I desire to Commend the Reader unto those two Apostolical Cautions one 1 Tim. 1. 18 19. the other 1 Tim. 6. 20. and to Commit him to the Grace of God May 15th J. O. OF THE DEATH OF CHRIST CAP. I. The Occasion of this DISCOVRSE with the Intendment of the whole A Few words will briefly acquaint the Reader with the Occasion of this Discourse ensuing It is now about 2 yeers since I Published a Treatise about the Redemption and Satisfaction that is in the blood of Chrst My aym was to hold out the whole Work of Redemption as flowing from the Love of the Father dispensed in the bloud of the Son and made effectual by the application of the Spirit of Grace And because in this whole Dispensation and in all the Method of Gods proceedings to make us nigh to himself in the bloud of Jesus There is no one thing so commonly Controverted as the object of that Redemption in respect of the extent of it That in the whole I did specially intend What by the grace of him who supplieth seed to the Sower was attained in that undertaking is left unto the Judgement of men upon the Issue of his Blessing thereunto altogether I am not out of hopes That that Labor in the Lord was not in vain The Universality of Redemption one thing in that Treatise mainly opposed having of old and of late got room in the minds of some men otherwise furnished with many precious Truths and eminent Gifts I was not without expectation of some opposition to be made thereunto Something also I have been informed hath been attempted that way but I am yet at so much quiet in that regard as an utter nescience of them can afford Only whereas many other questions are incidently and by the way handled therein as about the Satisfaction and Merit of Christ c. It pleased Mr Baxter a learned Divine in an Appendix to a Treatise of Justification by him lately Published to turn aside in the Censure of some of them and opposition to them Indeed most of his Exceptions do lie rather against Words then Things Expressions then Oppinions wayes of Delivering things then the Doctrines themselves as the Reader will perceive so that of this labour I might ease my self with this just Apology That I was desired and pressed to handle the things of that Discourse in the most popular way they were capable of and in the best accommodation to vulgar Capacities so that it is no wonder if some Expressions therein may be found to want some grains of Accurateness though they have not one dram the less of Truth in a Scholastical ballance Notwithstanding because 1 I am not as yet convinced by any thing in M. Baxters Censure and Opposition that there was any such blameable deviation as is pretended but rather the words of Truth and Sobriety cloathing a Doctrine of wholsomeness and especially because the things pointed at are in themselves weighty and needing some exactness in the delivery to give a right Apprehension of them I was willing once more to attempt whether the Grace of God with me who am less then the least of all Saints might give any further light into the right understanding of them according to the Truth to the advantage of any that love the Lord Jesus in sincerity The true nature of the satisfaction of Christ with the kind of Payment of our Debt by him made and accomplished is doubtless worthy of our most serious enquiry The right Constitution of the immediate Effects of the Death of Christ the relation of men to the Election of God and the Redemption of Christ with their several states and Conditions in reference unto those Works of Grace ought to be of no lesse esteem And that not only for the nature and excellency of the things themselves but also because a right disposal of them gives more light into the stating and settling many other Controverted Truths about Faith Justification Vocation and the like These are the Subjects about which I am called forth in my own or rather Truths defence For the Treatise and Subject thereof whose latter part gives Rise to this I shall say no more but as there are in it many footsteps of Commendable Learning Industry and Diligence so to my present Apprehension the chief Intendments of it with very many occasional Expressions of the Authors Judgement in sundry Particulars are obnoxious to just Opposition from Truth it self It is not at all in my thoughts to engage my self into the chief Controversie there agitated though I could desire That some to whom Providence hath given more leasure and opportunities for such employments would candidly examine those Aphorismes for the further advantage of Truth and Light But whereas the learned Author hath to make streight the work he had in hand endeavoured to cast some part of the Doctrine of the Satisfaction and Redemption of Christ as by me delivered into a crooked Frame and that with some such passages of Censure as might have been omitted without losing the least Grace of his Book or Stile I shall with the Lords assistance endeavour to reinforce what of Truth hath been thereby assaulted in vain and more especially take occasion from thence further to unfold those Mysteries which to our apprehension are wrapped up in no small darkness there being in them some things difficult and hard to be understood The First thing then which that learned Divine chose to stand in distance from me in is concerning the nature of the payment made for sin by the bloud of Christ Whether it be ejusdem or tantidem and of the Sense of those Expresions is our First Debate In handling whereof I hope I shall not only satisfie the Reader as to the Truth of what I had before written but also further cleer the whole Doctrine of Satisfaction with especial reference to the kind of the Payment that Christ made and Punishment which he underwent The other Head wrappeth in it self many particulars concerning the

Justice so repaired as above For Positive good things in Grace and Glory by Satisfaction alone they are not at all respected 2 There is the Merit of the Death of Christ and that Principally intendeth the Glory of God in our enjoying those good things whereof it is the Merit or desert And this is the Foundation of that Right whereof we treat What Christ hath Merited for us it is just and equal we should have that is We have Right unto it and this before Beleeving Faith gives us actual Possession as to some Part and a new Pactional right as to the whole but this Right or that equalling of things upon divine Constitution Jus est operatio illa qua sit aequalitas Pesant in Tom. 22. ae q. 57. whereby it becomes Just and Right that we should obtain the things Purchased by it is from the Merit of Christ alone What Christ hath Merited is so far granted as that they for whom it is so Merited have a Right unto it The Sum then of what we have to prove is That the Merit of the Death of the Lord Jesus hath according to the Constitution of the Father so procured of him the good things aimed at and intended therby that it is Just Right and Equal that they for whom they are so procured should certainly and infallibly enjoy them at the appointed Season and therefore unto them they have an actual Right even before Beleeving Faith it self being of the number of those things so procured All which I prove as followeth 1 The very Terms before mentioned enforce no less If it be justum before their Beleeving that those for whom Christ Died should enjoy the Fruits of his Death then have they even before Beleeving jus or a right thereunto for jus est quod justum est That it is right and equal that they should enjoy those Fruits is manifest For. 1 It was the Engagement of the Father to the Son upon his undertaking to die for them that they should so do Isa. 53. 10 11 12. 2 In that Undertaking he Accomplished all that was of him required Joh. 17. 4. 2 That which is Merited and Procured for any one thereunto he for whom it is procured certainly hath a Right That which is obtained for me is mine in actual right though not perhaps in actual Possession The thing that is obtained is granted by him of whom it is obtained and that unto them for whom it is obtained In some sense or other that is a man's which is procured for him In saying it is procured for him we say no less If this then be not in Respect of Possession it must be in Respect of Right Now all the Fruits of the Death of Christ are obtained and procured by his Merit for them for whom he died He OBTAINS for them eternal Redemption Heb. 9. 12. purchasing them with his own Blood Act. 20. 28. Heb. 2. 14. 1 Pet. 1. 18. Gal. 1. 4. Rev. 14. 3 4. The very Nature of Merit described by the Apostle Rom. 4. 4. infers no less Where Merit intercedes the Effect is reckoned as of debt That which is my due debt I have a Right unto The Fruits of the Death of Christ are the Issues of Merit bottomed on Gods gracious Acceptation and reckoned as of debt He for whom a Ransome is paid hath a Right unto his Liberty by vertue of that Payment 3 2 Pet. 1. 1. The Saints are said to obtain precious Faith through the reghteousness of God It is a righteous thing with God to give Faith to them for whom Christ died because thereby they have a Right unto it Faith being amongst the most precious Fruits of the Death of Christ by vertue thereof becometh their due for whom he died 4 The Condition of Persons under Merit and de-Merit in respect of Good or Evill is alike The Proportion of things requires it Now men under de-Merit are under an Obligation unto Punishment and it is a righteous thing with God to recompence tribulation unto them 2 Thess. 1. 6. It being the judgement of God that they who do such things are worthy of death Rom. 1. 32. They then who are under Merit have also a Right unto that whereof it is the Merit It is not of any force to say That they are not under that Merit but only upon Condition For this is 1 False 2 With God this is all one as if there were no Condition at the Season and Term appointed for the making out the Fruit of that Merit as hath been declared Neither yet to Object That it is not their own Merit but of another which Respects them That Other being their Surety doing that whereby he Merited only on their behalf yea in their stead they dying with him though the same in them could not have been Meritorious they being at best meer men and at worst very sinful men 5 A Compact or Covenant being made of giving Life and Salvation upon the Condition of Obedience to certain Persons that Condition being compleatly fulfilled as it was in the Death of Christ Claim being made of the Promise according to the Tenure of the Compact and the Persons presented for the Enjoyment of it surely those Persons have an Actual Right unto it That all this is so see Isa. 49. 2 3 4 5 6 c. Psal. 2. 2. 4 5. Isa. 53. 10 11 12. Joh. 17. 3. 2. 21. Heb. 2. And so much for this also concerning the Issue of the Death of Christ and the Right of the Elect to the Fruits of it before Beleeving CAP. XII Of the way whereby they actually attain and enjoy Faith and Grace who have a Right thereunto by the Death of Christ THE Way and Causes of bestowing Faith on them who are under the Condition before described is the next thing to be enquired after What are the Thoughts of God from Eternity concerning those for whom Christ was to die with the State they are left in in relation to those Thoughts as also what is the Will of God towards them immediatly upon the Consideration of the Death of Christ with the Right which to them accrews thereby being Considered it remaineth I say that we declare the Way and Method whereby they obtain Faith through the righteousness of God And here we must lay down certain POSITIONS As 1 Notwithstanding the Right granted them for whom Christ died upon his Death to a better State and Condition in due Time that is in the Season suiting the Infinitly-Wise-Sovereignty of God yet as to their present Condition in point of Enjoyment they are not actually differenced from others Their Prayers are an abomination to the Lord Prov. 28. 9. all Things are to them unclean Tit. 1. 15. they are under the Power of Satan Eph. 2. 2. in bondage unto death Heb. 2. 14. Obnoxious to the Curse and Condemning power of the Law in the Conscience Gal. 3. 13. having sin reigning in them Rom. 6. 17. c. 2 What