A53688:1118
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. Some Truths have a more immediate, direct, and effectual tendency to the promotion of Godliness, and Gospel Obedience, then others; This the Apostle emphatically ascribes, as a privilege, to that Doctrine, that reveals the Love of Christ unto us. 2 Cor. 5. 14. the Love of Christ constrains us; other things effectually persuade, but the Love of Christ constrains us to live to him; it hath an importunity with it, not to be denied; an efficacy not to be put off, or avoided; and what is in the things themselves, as in the love of Christ, that is in its manner, in the Word of Truth, whereby it is revealed.
3. Some Truths have a more immediate, direct, and effectuall tendency to the promotion of Godlinesse, and Gospell Obedience, then others; This the Apostle emphatically ascribes, as a priviledge, to that Doctrine, that reveales the Love of Christ unto us. 2 Cor. 5. 14. the Love of Christ constraines us; other things effectually perswade, but the Love of Christ constraines us to live to him; it hath an importunity with it, not to be denied; an efficacy not to be put off, or avoided; and what is in the things themselves, as in the love of Christ, that is in its manner, in the Word of Truth, whereby it is revealed.
4. That there is, by all that walk with God, great weight to be laid on those Doctrines of Truth, which directly and effectually tend to the promotion of Faith, Love, Fear, Reverence of God, with universal holiness in their hearts and ways: this being that, whereunto they are called, and whereby God is glorified, Jesus Christ and the Gospel exalted, wherein his Kingdom in them consists, on which their own peace in their own bosoms, their usefulness unto others in this World, their being made meet for the Inheritance of the Saints of Light, doth much depend: If these things be of weight or moment unto them, (as surely they are all, that is, so to Believers) then doubtless, great valuation, and dear esteem will be entertained of those helps and Assistances, with they have, leading and carrying them on thereunto.