A53688:1097
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 to be the tenor and effect of Christ's Intercession for his Saints (saith he) is evident from the first of the three passages cited: And for that demand [who shall separate us from the love of Christ] It is not meant from the Love, wherewith we love Christ, but from the Love wherewith Christ loveth us; as we are Saints, and abide in his love, and keep his commands: neither is it so to be conceived, as if ⟨p. 222⟩sin, wickedness, looseness, profaneness, could not unsaint men, and hereby separate them from them from that love, wherewith Christ sometimes loved them, (for that Iniquity will separate between men, and their God, is evident from Isa. 59. 2.) But the clear meaning is, that nothing, no Creature whatsoever, person, or thing, can make Christ an enemy to those, who shall in Faith and Love, cleave fast unto him.
This to be the tenour and effect of Christ's Intercession for his Saints (saith he) is evident from the first of the three passages cited: And for that demand [who shall separate us from the love of Christ] It is not meant from the Love, wherewith we love Christ, but from the Love wherewith Christ loveth us; as we are Saints, and abide in his love, and keepe his commands: neither is it so to be conceived, as if ⟨p. 222⟩sinne, wickednesse, loosenesse, profanenesse, could not unsaint men, and hereby separate them from them from that love, wherewith Christ sometimes loved them, (for that Iniquity will separate between men, and their God, is evident from