A53688:1086
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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This Argument is proposed by the Apostle,1 in the most triumphant assurance of the Truth and Certainty of the inference contained in it, that he any where useth, in any case whatsoever. Rom: 8. 33, 34. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect? It is God that justifieth: Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh Intercession for us: he lays the immunity of the Elect & justified Persons, from just crimination, or Condemnation, on the foundation of the Oblation and Intercession of Christ; The first part of this Argument, from the Oblation of Christ, (who shall condemn? It is Christ that died) asserting the immunity of Believers from Condemnation, upon the account of the punishing of all their sins in Christ, and the perfect satisfaction made by his death for them, whence the justice of God, in the issue, will not have any thing to lay to their charge, we have formerly insisted on; The other, which the Apostle induces emphatically and comparatively, though not in respect of procurement and purchase made, yet of assurance to be given, with [Greek or Hebrew] in respect of his Oblation▪ is that now before us. To make the Assurance of Believers plentiful, that they may know both the Truth of his first general Assertion, that all things shall work together for good to them; and this particular conclusion, now laid down by way of interrogation, rejecting all evil opposed to their former enjoyments, who shall lay any thing to their charge? who shall condemn? He gives them a threefold consideration of the state, and actings of the Lord Christ, after the Expiation of their sins by this blood, in reference to them; 1. He is Risen. 2. He is at the Right hand of God. 3. Makeeth Intercession for them; the First denoting his Acquitment, and theirs in him, (for he died in their stead) from all the sins that were charged on him; For he was declared to be the Son of God, accepted with him, and justified from all that debt, which he undertook, in his Resurrection; and, if he be risen, who shall lay any thing to the charge of them whom he died for, and for all whose sins, in their stead, he was acquitted? The Second is his Exaltation and Power; for, having purged our sins, he is sate down at the right hand of the Majesty on High. Heb. 1. 3.
This Argument is proposed by the Apostle,