THE DEATH OF DEATH IN THE DEATH OF CHRIST
by John Owen
A TREATISE OF THE REDEMPTION AND RECONCILIATION THAT IS IN THE BLOOD OF CHRIST, WITH THE MERIT THEREOF, AND SATISFACTION WROUGHT THEREBY.
INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK by J.I. Packer
BOOK I
- Chapter 1: In general of the end of the death of Christ, as it is in the Scripture proposed.
- Chapter 2: Of the nature of an end in general, and some distinctions about it.
- Chapter 3: 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.
- Chapter 4: Of those things which in the work of redemption are peculiarly ascribed to the person of the Son.
- Chapter 5: The peculiar actions of the Holy Spirit in this business.
- Chapter 6: The means used by the fore-recounted agents in this work.
- Chapter 7: 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.
- Chapter 8: Objections against the former proposal answered
BOOK II
- Chapter 1: Some previous considerations to a more particular inquiry after the proper end and effect of the death of Christ.
- Chapter 2: Containing a removal of some mistakes and false assignations of the end of the death of Christ.
- Chapter 3: More particularly of the immediate end of the death of Christ, with the several ways whereby it is designed.
- Chapter 4: 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.
- Chapter 5: Of application and impetration.
BOOK III
- Chapter 1: Arguments against the universality of redemption-The two first; from the nature of the new covenant, and the dispensation thereof.
- Chapter 2: Containing three other arguments.
- Chapter 3: Containing, two other arguments from the person Christ sustained in this business.
- Chapter 4: Of sanctification, and of the cause of faith, and the procurement thereof by the death of Christ.
- Chapter 5: Being a continuance of arguments from the nature and description of the thing in hand; and first, of redemption.
- Chapter 6: Of the nature of reconciliation, and the argument taken from thence.
- Chapter 7: Of the nature of the satisfaction of Christ, with arguments from thence.
- Chapter 8: A digression, containing the substance of an occasional conference concerning the satisfaction of Christ.
- Chapter 9: Being a second part of the former digression--Arguments to prove the satisfaction of Christ.
- Chapter 10: Of the merit of Christ, with arguments from thence.
- Chapter 11: The last general argument.
BOOK IV
- Chapter 1: Things previously to be considered, to the solution of objections.
- Chapter 2: An entrance to the answer unto particular arguments.
- Chapter 3: An unfolding of the remaining texts of Scripture produced for the confirmation of the first general argument for universal redemption.
- Chapter 4: Answer to the second general argument for the universality of redemption.
- Chapter 5: The last argument from Scripture answered.
- Chapter 6: 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.