A53688:1112
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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Dread and terror of Hell not the means of mortification: at large proved, by showing quite another means of mortifying the Flesh, viz, The spirit of Christ, Rom. 8. 13. applying the Cross, and Death of Christ. Rom. 6. 5, 6. 15. (3.) This Doctrine is useful to promote Gospel Obedience, in that it tends directly to increase and strengthen Faith and Love, both towards God, and towards our Lord Jesus Christ. 16. How it strengthens their Love to God, viz. By discovering his Love to them, in three eminent properties of it, Freedom, Constancy, Fruitfulness. 17. How it strengthens their Love to Jesus Christ, viz. By discovering his Love to them, in two eminent Acts of it, his Oblation and his Intercession. 18. (4.) This Doctrine conduces &c. by giving Gospel Obedience its proper place and due order. 19. (5.) By closing in with the ends of Gospel Ordinances, particularly the Ministry, one eminent end whereof is, to perfect the Saints. Eph. 4. 12, 13. Which is done by discovering to them the whole will of God, both Precepts, on the one hand, and Promises, Exhortations, Threatenings on the other. 20. That of the Promises more particularly, and more largely insisted on.
Dread and terror of Hell not the meanes of mortification: at large proved, by shewing quite another meanes of mortifying the Flesh, viz, The spirit of Christ, Rom. 8. 13. applying the Crosse, and Death of Christ. Rom. 6. 5, 6. 15. (3.) This Doctrine is usefull to promote Gospell Obedience, in that it tends directly to increase and strengthen Faith and Love, both towards God, and towards our Lord Jesus Christ. 16. How it strengthens their Love to God, viz. By discovering his Love to them, in three eminent properties of it, Freedome, Constancy, Fruitfulnesse. 17. How it strengthens their Love to Jesus Christ, viz. By discovering his Love to them, in two eminent Acts of it, his Oblation and his Intercession. 18. (4.) This Doctrine conduces &c. by giving Gospell Obedience its proper place and due order. 19. (5.) By closing in with the ends of Gospell Ordinances, particularly the Ministry, one eminent end whereof is, to perfect the Saints.