A53688:1084
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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The things prayed for, the Reason of his Intercession, the opposition against the accomplishment of the things interceded for, the distinction put between them for whom he Intercedes, and the perishing world, all delivered in plain and express terms, evidently evince the intendment of Christ in his Intercession, evidently to regard the safeguarding of Believers in the Love and Favour of God, by their continuance in Believing, and preservation from the Power of temptations, and oppositions, arising against their Perseverance in communion with God.
The things prayed for, the Reason of his Intercession, the opposition against the accomplishment of the things interceded for, the distinction put between them for whom he Intercedes, and the perishing world, all delivered in plaine and expresse termes, evidently evince the intendment of Christ in his Intercession, evidently to regard the safeguarding of Believers in the Love and Favour of God, by their continuance in Believing, and preservation from the Power of temptations, and oppositions, arising against their Perseverance in communion with God.
The result of what hath been spoken,1 as to its influence into the confirmation of the Truth under Demonstration, amounts unto thus much. That which the Lord Jesus Christ as Mediator requesteth, and prayeth for continually of the Father, according to his mind, in order to the Accomplishment of the Promises made to him, and Covenant with him (all his desires being bottomed upon his exact perfect performance of the whole will of God, both in doing and suffering) that shall certainly be accomplished and brought to pass; But thus, in this manner, upon these accounts, doth the Lord Jesus intercede for the Perseverance of Believers, and their Preservation in the Love of the Father unto the end; therefore they shall undoubtedly be so preserved. It is confessed, that the Persons Interceded for, are Believers, all Believers, that then were, or should be to the end of the World, (the efficacy of this Intercession having commenced from the foundations thereof) the thing prayed for is their Preservation in the state of Union with Christ, and one another, the motives used for the obtaining this request in their behalf, are taken from the work they have to do, and the opposition they were to meet withal, and all the Saints being thus put into the hand of God, who shall