EDITED BY WILLIAM H. GOOLD VOLUME This Edition of THE WORKS OF JOHN OWEN first published by Johnstone & Hunter, 1850-53 CONTENTS OF VOLUME 12, VINDICIAE EVANGELICAE; OR THE MYSTERY OF THE GOSPEL VINDICATED AND SOCINIANISM EXAMINED.

PREFATORY NOTE BY THE EDITOR, DEDICATION, . EPISTLE DEDICATORY, PREFACE TO THE READER, MR BIDDLE’ S PREFACE TO HIS CATECHISM, MR BIDDLE’ S PREFACE BRIEFLY EXAMINED, 1. — Mr Biddle’s first chapter examined — Of the Scriptures, 2. — Of the nature of God,3. — Of the shape and bodily visible figure of God,4. — Of the attribution of passions and affections, anger, fear, repentance, unto God — In what sense it is done in the Scripture, 5. — Of God’s prescience or foreknowledge 6. — Of the creation, and condition of man before and after the fall, 7. — Of the person of Jesus Christ and on what account he is the Son of God,8. — An entrance into the examination of the Racovian Catechism in the business of the deity of Christ — Their arguments against it answered; and testimonies of the eternity of Christ vindicated, 9. — The pre-eternity of Christ farther evinced — Sundry texts of Scripture vindicated, 10. — Of the names of God given unto Christ, . 11. — Of the work of creation assigned to Jesus Christ, etc. — The confirmation of his eternal deity from thence, 12. — All-ruling and disposing providence assigned unto Christ, and his eternal Godhead thence farther confirmed, with other testimonies thereof, . 13. — Of the incarnation of Christ, and his pre-existence thereunto, 14. — Sundry other testimonies given to the deity of Christ vindicated, 15. — Of the Holy Ghost, his deity, graces, and operations, 16. — Of salvation by Christ, . 17. — Of the mediation of Christ,18. — Of Christ’s prophetical office 19. — Of the kingly office of Jesus Christ, and of the worship that is ascribed and due to him, 20. — Of the priestly office of Christ — How he was a priest — When he entered on his office — And how he dischargeth it. 21. — Of the death of Christ, the causes, ends, and fruits thereof, with an entrance into the doctrine of his satisfaction thereby, 22. — The several considerations of the death of Christ as to the expiation of our sins thereby, and the satisfaction made therein — First, Of it as a price; secondly, As a sacrifice , 23. — Of the death of Christ as it was a punishment, and the satisfaction made thereby, 24. — Some particular testimonies evincing the death of Christ to be a punishment, properly so called, 25. — A digression concerning the 53d chapter of Isaiah, and the vindication of it from the perverse interpretation ofHUGO GROTIUS, 26. — Of the matter of the punishment that Christ underwent, or what he suffered,27. — Of the covenant between the Father and the Son, the ground and foundation of this dispensation of Christ’s being punished for us and in our stead, 28. — Of redemption by the death of Christ as it was a price or ransom,29. — Of reconciliation by the death of Christ as it is a sacrifice,30. — The satisfaction of Christ, on the consideration of his death being a punishment, farther evinced, and vindicated from the exceptions of Smaicius, 31. — Of election and universal grace — Of the resurrection of Christ from the dead, 32. — Of justification and faith,33. — Of keeping the commandments of God, and of perfection of obedience — How attainable in this life,34. — Of prayer; and whether Christ prescribed a form of prayer to be used by believers; and of praying unto him and in his name under the old testament, 35. — Of the resurrection of the dead and the state of the wicked at the last day, [APPENDIX.]OF THE DEATH OF CHRIST,AND OF JUSTIFICATION, A REVIEW OF THE ANNOTATIONS OF HUGO GROTIUS.