06 - The Meaningless Form: Owen's Position

Let me remind you, reader, of Owen’s position: The atonement, though efficient only for the elect, and not provisional for all, is sufficient for all because of the worth of Christ’s person. I repeat the extracts I quoted earlier: Christ’s ‘death, as Calvin and other expositors remind us, because it was eternal and because he is the Son of God, is sufficient for the whole world’. ‘There was virtue and efficacy enough in [Christ’s] oblation to satisfy offended justice for the sins of the whole world, yes, and of millions of worlds more; for his blood has infinite value, because of the infinite dignity and excellency of his person’.