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Description
The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
This masterpiece of Puritan John Owen is a polemical work, designed to show that the doctrine of universal redemption is unscriptural and destructive of the gospel. Those who see no need for doctrinal exactness and have no time for theological debates which show up divisions between Evangelicals may well regret its reappearance. Some may find the very sound of Owen’s thesis so shocking that they will refuse to read his book at all.
It is to those who share this readiness that Owen’s treatise is offered, in the belief that it will help us in one of the most urgent tasks facing Evangelical Christendom today – the recovery of the gospel.
Endorsement
“It is safe to say that no comparable exposition of the work of redemption, as planned and executed by the Triune God, has ever been done since Owen published this in 1648.” — J. I. Packer, author of Knowing God and Professor of Theology at Regents College, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Table of Contents
| Page | ||
| Introductory Essay, J. I. Packer | 1 | |
| Analysis of the book, J. I. Packer | 26 | |
| Epistle Dedicatory | 33 | |
| Two Attestations touching the ensuing Treatise | 35 | |
| To the Reader | 37 | |
| BOOK I. | ||
| I. | In general of the end of the death of Christ, as it in the Scripture proposed | 45 |
| II. | Of the nature of an end in general, and some distinctions about it | 48 |
| III. | Of the agent or chief author of the work of our redemption, and of the first thing distinctly ascribed to the person of the Father | 51 |
| IV. | Of those things which in the work of redemption are peculiarly ascribed to the person of the Son | 62 |
| V. | The peculiar actions of the Holy Spirit in this business | 66 |
| VI. | The means used by the fore-recounted agents in this work | 67 |
| VII. | Containing reasons to prove the oblation and intercession of Christ to be one entire means respecting the accomplishment of the same proposed end, and to have the same personal object | 70 |
| VIII. | Objections against the former proposal answered | 75 |
| BOOK II. | ||
| I. | Some previous considerations to a more particular inquiry after the proper end and effect of the death of Christ | 88 |
| II. | Containing a removal of some mistakes and false assignations of the end of the death of Christ | 91 |
| III. | More particularly of the immediate end of the death of Christ, with the several ways whereby it is designed | 96 |
| IV. | Of the distinction of impetration and application – The use and abuse thereof; with the opinion of the adversaries upon the whole matter in controversy unfolded; and the question on both sides stated | 110 |
| V. | Of application and impetration | 120 |
| BOOK III. | ||
| I. | Arguments against the universality of redemption – The two first; from the nature of the new covenant, and the dispensation thereof | 124 |
| II. | Containing three other arguments | 128 |
| III. | Containing two other arguments from the person Christ sustained in this business | 134 |
| IV. | Of sanctification, and of the cause of faith, and the procurement thereof by the death of Christ | 137 |
| V. | Being a continuance of arguments from the nature and description of the thing in hand; and first, of redemption | 146 |
| VI. | Of the nature of reconciliation, and the argument taken from thence | 149 |
| VII. | Of the nature of the satisfaction of Christ, with arguments from thence | 153 |
| VIII. | A digression, containing the substance of an occasional conference concerning the satisfaction of Christ | 162 |
| IX. | Being a second part of the former digression – Arguments to prove the satisfaction of Christ | 167 |
| X. | Of the merit of Christ, with arguments from thence | 174 |
| XI. | The last general argument | 178 |
| BOOK IV. | ||
| I. | Things previously to be considered, to the solution of objections | 182 |
| II. | An entrance to the answer unto particular arguments | 204 |
| III. | An unfolding of the remaining texts of Scripture produced for the confirmation of the first general argument for universal redemption | 218 |
| IV. | Answer to the second general argument for the universality of redemption | 231 |
| V. | The last argument from Scripture answered | 247 |
| VI. | An answer to the twentieth chapter of the book entitled, “The Universality of God’s Free Grace,” etc., being a collection of all the arguments used by the author throughout the whole book to prove the universality of redemption | 256 |
| VII. | The removal of other remaining objections | 292 |
| Some few Testimonies of the Ancients | 310 |
