A53688:1115
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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1. Every Truth revealed from God is to be received not only with Faith, and Love, but with equal Reverence to any that is revealed, though we are not able to discern such an immediate tendency unto usefulness in our Communion with him, as in some others we may; The formal Reason, whereunto our Faith, Love, and Reverence unto the Word of God is resolved, is, that it is His: Now this is common to the whole, for he is the Author of every part, and portion a like; And though perhaps we may want some part of it, at a less fatal price then some other, yet to reject any one title or jot of it, as that which is revealed of God, is a sufficient demonstration, that no one jot or title of it, is received as it ought; upon whatever this Title & Inscription is Verbum Jehovae, there must we stoop and bow down our souls before it, and captivate our Understandings to the obedience of Faith; Whatsoever then may hereafter be spoken, concerning the usefulness of the Truth under Consideration, and that comparative regard, which, in respect of others, ought on that account to be had thereunto, doth not in the least exalt it (as it is in it self, in respect of Faith and Reverence due thereunto) above any other Truth whatsoever, that is in Scripture revealed.
1. Every Truth revealed from God is to be received not only with Faith, and Love, but with equall Reverence to any that is revealed, though we are not able to discerne such an immediate tendency unto usefullnesse in our Communion with him, as in some others we may; The formall Reason, whereunto our Faith, Love, and Reverence unto the Word of God is resolved, is, that it is His: Now this is common to the whole, for he is the Author of every part, and portion a like; And though perhaps we may want some part of it, at a lesse fatall price then some other, yet to reject any one title or jot of it, as that which is revealed of God, is a sufficient demonstration, that no one jot or title of it, is received as it ought; upon whatever this Title & Inscription is Verbum Jehovae, there must we stoope and bow downe our soules before it, and captivate our Understandings to the obedience of Faith; Whatsoever then may hereafter be spoken, concerning the usefulnesse of the Truth under Consideration, and that comparative regard, which, in respect of others, ought on that account to be had thereunto, doth not in the least exalt it (as it is in it selfe, in respect of Faith and Reverence due thereunto) above any other Truth whatsoever, that is in Scripture revealed.