A53688:1079
The Doctrine of the Saints' Perseverance
The doctrine of the saints perseverance, explained and confirmed, or, The certain permanency of their 1. acceptation with God & 2. sanctification from God manifested & proved from the 1. eternal principles 2. effectual causes 3. external means thereof ... vindicated in a full answer to the discourse of Mr. John Goodwin against it, in his book entitled Redemption redeemed : with some digressions concerning 1. the immediate effects of the death of Christ ... : with a discourse touching the epistles of Ignatius, the Episcopacy in them asserted, and some animadversions on Dr. H.H. his dissertations on that subject / by John Owen ...The doctrine of the saints perseverance, explained and confirmed, or, The certain permanency of their 1. acceptation with God & 2. sanctification from God manifested & proved from the 1. eternal principles 2. effectuall causes 3. externall meanes thereof ... vindicated in a full answer to the discourse of Mr. John Goodwin against it, in his book entituled Redemption redeemed : with some degressions concerning 1. the immediate effects of the death of Christ ... : with a discourse touching the epistles of Ignatius, the Episcopacy in them asserted, and some animadversions on Dr. H.H. his dissertations on that subject / by John Owen ...
London: printed by Leon. Lichfield, 1654
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And keep them through thy Nam•, thy Power, (for we are kept through the Power of God unto Salvation,) let thy Power be exerted for their preservation. And what is too strong for thy Power? Who can take them out of thy hand? Lay that upon them for their defence, show it out in their behalf, that all their enemies may feel the weight, and strength thereof. Keep them through thy Name, thy Grace, let that be sufficient for them, let them have such supplies of Gospel Grace, and pardoning Mercy, (concerning which, I manifested thy Name unto them v. 6. and so revealed thee a Father) that they may be encouraged to trust in that Name of thine, and to stay themselves upon thee; where the failure is, doubtless is not easy to manifest. In the verse following our Saviour adds many motives to make his Intercession prevalent in their behalf.
And keep thē through thy Nam•, thy Power, (for we are kept through the Power of God unto Salvation,) let thy Power be exerted for their preservation. And what is too strong for thy Power? Who can take them out of thy hand? Lay that upon them for their defence, shew it out in their behalfe, that all their enemies may feele the weight, and strength thereof. Keepe them through thy Name, thy Grace, let that be sufficient for them, let them have such supplyes of Gospell Grace, and pardoning Mercy, (concerning which, I manifested thy Name unto them v. 6. and so revealed thee a Father) that they may be incouraged to trust in that Name of thine, and to stay themselves upon thee; where the failure is, doubtlesse is not easy to manifest. In the verse following our Saviour addes many motives to make his Intercession prevalent in their behalfe.
First, v. 12. he saith, that according to that Commission, that he had received, he had faithfully preserved them, whilst that he was in the world; and now being ready to leave them, as to his bodily presence, he urges the special preservation of his Father as needful, that, after all the Care and Cost, which he had laid out about them, they might not utterly perish. And then