A53688:1094
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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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.
3. Those words of the Apostle [who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect] do not denote, this is that the Intercession of Christ for them, that no accusation be admitted against them, whilst they believe; which is no more, but the confirmation of that general Proposition of the Gospel before mentioned. But it is the Conclusion which they make upon the Account of the Intercession of Christ in the Application of the Promise of the Gospel to their own souls: Neither is there any more weight in that which follows, that there be no abatement, or alienation of the Love of God from them, upon the account of their sufferings and afflictions, which for the most part, are for his sake; what Saints of God were almost so much as once tempted with a conceit, that Gods Love should be abated, or alienated from them, because they suffered for him?
3. Those words of the Apostle [who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect] do not denote, this is that the Intercession of Christ for them, that no accusation be admitted against thē, whilst they belive; which is no more, but the confirmation of that generall Proposition of the Gospell before mentioned. But it is the Conclusion which they make upon the Account of the Intercession of Christ in the Application of the Promise of the Gospell to their owne soules: Neither is there any more weight in that which followes, that there be no abatement, or alienation of the Love of God from them, upon the account of their sufferings and afflictions, which for the most part, are for his sake; what Saints of God were almost so much as once tempted with a conceit, that Gods Love should be abated, or alienated from them, because they suffered for him?