A53688:1131
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 Form or Manner of its performance; whence it receives its distinct being, as such.
2. The Forme or Manner of its performance; whence it receives its distinct being, as such.
1. The Matter or Substance of it contains those things, or duties to God, wherein it doth consist. Now it consisting, as I said before, in Conformity & Submission to the Will, that is, the Commanding revealed Will of God, the matter of it must lye in the performance of all these things, & only those things, which God requireth of Believers, in walking before him: I say, all those things, that God commandeth, with an equal respect to all his Precepts; The Authority of God the Commander and Law Giver, is the same in every command; And therefore was the Curse denounced unto every one, that continued not in all things written in the Law to do them; and the Apostle tells us, that in the transgression of any one precept, there is included the transgression of the whole Law, because the Authority of the Law giver, both in the one, and the other, is despised. James 2. 10, 11. Whosoever shall keep the whole Law, and yet offend in any one point, he is guilty of all; For he that, said Do not commit Adultery, said also Do not kill. And
1. The Matter or Substance of it containes those things, or duties to God, wherein it doth consist. Now it consisting, as I said before, in Conformity & Submission to the Will, that is, the Commanding revealed Will of God, the matter of it must lye in the performance of all these things, & only those things, which God requireth of Believers, in walking before him: I say, all those things, that God commandeth, with an equall respect to all his Precepts; The Authority of God the Commander and Law Giver, is the same in every command; And therefore was the Curse denounced unto every one, that continued not in all things written in the Law to do them; and the Apostle tels us, that in the transgression of any one precept, there is included the transgression of the whole Law, because the Authority of the Law giver, both in the one, and the other, is despised.