Death of Death in the Death of Christ

John Owen — from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.

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Contents (40)

1. Prefatory note 2. Analysis
2. To the Right Honourable Robert, Earl of Warwick 4. Attestation by Stanley Gower 5. Attestation by Richard Byfield
3. To the reader
4. Title 8. Chapter I. In general of the end of the death of Christ, as it is in the Scripture proposed 9. Chapter II. Of the nature of an end in general, and some distinctions about it 10. Chapter 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 11. Chapter IV. Of those things which in the work of redemption are peculiarly ascribed to the person of the Son 12. Chapter V. The peculiar actions of the Holy Spirit in this business 13. Chapter VI. The means used by the fore-recounted agents in this work 14. Chapter 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 15. Chapter VIII. Objections against the former proposal answered 16. Chapter I. Some previous considerations to a more particular inquiry after the proper end and effect of the death of Christ 17. Chapter II. Containing a removal of some mistakes and false assignations of the end of the death of Christ 18. Chapter III. More particularly of the immediate end of the death of Christ, with the several ways whereby it is designed 19. Chapter 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 20. Chapter V. Of application and impetration 21. Chapter I. Arguments against the universality of redemption — The two first; from the nature of the new covenant, and the dispensation thereof 22. Chapter II. Containing three other arguments 23. Chapter III. Containing, two other arguments from the person Christ sustained in this business 24. Chapter IV. Of sanctification, and of the cause of faith, and the procurement thereof by the death of Christ 25. Chapter V. Being a continuance of arguments from the nature and description of the thing in hand; and first, of redemption 26. Chapter VI. Of the nature of reconciliation, and the argument taken from thence 27. Chapter VII. Of the nature of the satisfaction of Christ, with arguments from thence 28. Chapter VIII. A digression, containing the substance of an occasional conference concerning the satisfaction of Christ 29. Chapter IX. Being a second part of the former digression — Arguments to prove the satisfaction of Christ 30. Chapter X. Of the merit of Christ, with arguments from thence 31. Chapter XI. The last general argument 32. Chapter I. Things previously to be considered, to the solution of objections 33. Chapter II. An entrance to the answer unto particular arguments 34. Chapter III. An unfolding of the remaining texts of scripture produced for the confirmation of the first general argument for universal redemption 35. Chapter IV. Answer to the second general argument for the universality of redemption 36. Chapter V. The last argument from scripture answered 37. Chapter 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 38. Chapter VII. The removal of other remaining objections 39. Some few testimonies of the ancients 40. An appendix upon occasion of a late book published by Mr Joshua Sprigge, containing erroneous doctrine