The Death of Death in the Death of Christ

Author

John Owen

Category Theology Books

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500 in stock

Weight	0.82 lbs
Dimensions	8.5 × 5.4 × 0.75 in
ISBN	9781800404762
Binding	Paperback
Topic	Atonement, Jesus Christ, Salvation
Original Pub Date	1684
Banner Pub Date	Jan 1, 1959
Page Count	440
Format	Book

Endorsement

‘It is safe to say that no comparable exposition of the work of redemption as planned and executed by the Triune Jehovah has ever been done since Owen published his in 1684. None has been needed. Owen’s interpretation of the texts is sure; his power of theological construction is superb; nothing that needs discussing is omitted, and no arguments for or against his position have been used since his day which he has not himself noted and dealt with. Owen’s work is a constructive broad-based biblical analysis of the heart of the gospel, and must be taken seriously as such. Nobody has a right to dismiss the doctrine of the limitedness of the atonement as a monstrosity of Calvinistic logic until he as refuted Owen’s proof that it is part of the uniform biblical presentation of redemption, clearly taught in plain text after plain text. And nobody has done that yet.’ — J.I. PACKER

Book Description

The Death of Death in the Death of Christ is a polemical work, designed to show, among other things, 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. But there are signs today of a new upsurge of interest in the theology of the Bible: a new readiness to test tradition, to search the Scriptures and to think through the faith. 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.

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	Introductory Essay by J. I. Packer	ix
	Analysis of the book by J. I. Packer	xliii
	Epistle Dedicatory	li
	Two Attestations touching the ensuing Treatise	liii
	To the Reader	1
	BOOK I
I.	In general of the end of the death of Christ, as it in the Scripture proposed	17
II.	Of the nature of an end in general, and some distinctions about it	22
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	26
IV.	Of those things which in the work of redemption are peculiarly ascribed to the person of the Son	40
V.	The peculiar actions of the Holy Spirit in this business	45
VI.	The means used by the fore-recounted agents in this work	47
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	51
VIII.	Objections against the former proposal answered	58
	BOOK II
I.	Some previous considerations to a more particular inquiry after the proper end and effect of the death of Christ	77
II.	Containing a removal of some mistakes and false assignations of the end of the death of Christ	81
III.	More particularly of the immediate end of the death of Christ, with the several ways whereby it is designed	88
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	106
V.	Of application and impetration	121
	BOOK III
I.	Arguments against the universality of redemption – The two first; from the nature of the new covenant, and the dispensation thereof	127
II.	Containing three other arguments	133
III.	Containing two other arguments from the person Christ sustained in this business	141
IV.	Of sanctification, and of the cause of faith, and the procurement thereof by the death of Christ	146
V.	Being a continuance of arguments from the nature and description of the thing in hand; and first, of redemption	158
VI.	Of the nature of reconciliation, and the argument taken from thence	162
VII.	Of the nature of the satisfaction of Christ, with arguments from thence	167
VIII.	A digression, containing the substance of an occasional conference concerning the satisfaction of Christ	179
IX.	Being a second part of the former digression – Arguments to prove the satisfaction of Christ	186
X.	Of the merit of Christ, with arguments from thence	196
XI.	The last general argument	201
	BOOK IV
I.	Things previously to be considered, to the solution of objections	207
II.	An entrance to the answer unto particular arguments	236
III.	An unfolding of the remaining texts of Scripture produced for the confirmation of the first general argument for universal redemption	254
IV.	Answer to the second general argument for the universality of redemption	272
V.	The last argument from Scripture answered	294
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	306
VII.	The removal of other remaining objections	353
	Some few Testimonies of the Ancients	373

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Ellison Marshall – December 11, 2013

It took me 4 months to read this book. Every morning before work I read. Owen so clearly explains what Christ actually did on the cross; that He actually, purposely, and eternally secured salvation. Christ did not “offer a wonderful plan for our lives” as some say, but He became our substitute, paying for our sins (whose names were written in the Lamb’s Book of Life before the foundation of the world). How can we respond to such a wondrous gift; a gift that no man ever asked for. Owen precisely articulates our “creation” as new creatures and that no one can birth themselves into the kingdom of God. The “work” of salvation is Christ’s from beginning to end. EVERY Christian should read this book in order to understand the working of God, using the same power to raise us up in salvation that He used to raise up Christ. Glory be to His name!