A53688:1093
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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3. In giving the aim of Christ in his Intercession for believers,§3 we have this new cogent Argument against our Position; Christ Intercedes for the things here by me mentioned; therefore he doth not Intercede for the Perseverance of the Saints; But why so? Is there any inconsistency in these things, any repugnancy in terms, or contrariety of the things themselves? Christ Intercedes, that Believers may enjoy the Love of God; therefore he doth not Intercede, that they may be established in Believing?
3. In giving the aime of Christ in his Intercession for believers,§3 we have this new cogent Argument against our Position; Christ Intercedes for the things here by me mentioned; therefore he doth not Intercede for the Perseverance of the Saints; But why so? Is there any inconsistency in these things, any repugnancy in termes, or contrariety of the things themselves? Christ Intercedes, that Believers may enjoy the Love of God; therefore he doth not Intercede, that they may be established in Believing?
2. The sum of all that is here ascribed to the Intercession of Christ, at the best, is, that God will confirm and ratify that everlasting Law, that Believers, continuing so to the end, shall be saved, which whether it be the sum of Christs Intercession for his Church or no, that Church will judge; If there be any thing farther, or of more importance to them, in what is assigned to it by M. Goodwin, it is wrapped up in the knot of &c. which I am not able to untie.
2. The summe of all that is here ascribed to the Intercession of Christ, at the best, is, that God will confirme and ratify that everlasting Law, that Believers, continuing so to the end, shall be saved, which whether it be the summe of Christs Intercession for his Church or no, that Church will judge; If there be any thing farther, or of more importance to them, in what is assigned to it by M. Goodwin, it is wrapt up in the knot of &c. which I am not able to untye.