A53688:1080
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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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
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 speciall preservation of his Father as needfull, that, after all the Care and Cost, which he had laid out about them, they might not utterly perish. And then
Secondly, v. 13. he urges the necessity, that they should have some Assurance of it in the midst of all their troubles and trials, that they may have Consolation upon their confidence in the words, which Christ had spoken to ⟨p. 218⟩them, that they should be preserved through all difficulties unto the end. And he farther urges,
Secondly, v. 13. he urges the necessity, that they should have some Assurance of it in the midst of all their troubles and tryalls, that they may have Consolation upon their confidence in the words, which Christ had spoken to ⟨p. 218⟩them, that they should be preserved through all difficulties unto the end. And he farther urges,
Thirdly, v. 14. from the certain Opposition, that they should meet withal: the world hates them, and will without doubt, use all ways and means possible, for their ruin and destruction; giving also the Reason, why the world hateth them, and will oppose them, which is such an one, as must needs engage the Heart and Goodwill of God for their preservation, to wit, because they receive the Word of his dear Son, and upon that account, left the world, separated from it, and became its enemies; and shall they now be left to the rage and fury of the world in this condition? That be far from thee: Holy Father keep them. Hereupon