A53688:1138
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. The principal End of it, which is the Glory of God, as a Rewarder: for he that comes unto God, must believe that he is, and that he is the Rewarder of them that seek him. Heb: 11. 6. The end of Legal Obedience was the Glory of God, as a Rewarder according to Merit, in strict justice; the end of Gospel Obedience is the Glory of God, as a Rewarder according to bounty, free Grace, and mercy: under which consideration, neither needs the Obedience rewardable to be commensurate to the Reward, nor is the Reward procured by that Obedience; If it were, then it were of works, and not of Grace, as the Apostle tells us. Rom. 4. 4. So that the end of our Obedience, is to exalt God as a Rewarder; yet that being as a Rewarder of Grace and bounty, the use of our Obedience is not to procure that Reward, (for that were to work, and to have a reward reckoned to us of Debt, and not of Grace,) but only to make the Lord gracious, and to exalt him in our present subjection, and in his future gift of Grace, in nature of a free bounteous reward. This I say is that Gospel Obedience, which by the Doctrine insisted on, is promoted in the souls of Believers.
3. The principall End of it, which is the Glory of God, as a Rewarder: for he that comes unto God, must believe that he is, and that he is the Rewarder of them that seeke him. Heb: 11. 6. The end of Legall Obedience was the Glory of God, as a Rewarder according to Merit, in strict justice; the end of Gospell Obedience is the Glory of God, as a Rewarder according to bounty, free Grace, and mercy: under which consideration, neither needs the Obedience rewardable to be commensurate to the Reward, nor is the Reward procured by that Obedience; If it were, then it were of workes, and not of Grace, as the Apostle tells us. Rom. 4. 4. So that the end of our Obedience, is to exalt God as a Rewarder; yet that being as a Rewarder of Grace and bounty, the use of our Obedience is not to procure that Reward, (for that were to worke, and to have a reward reckoned to us of Debt, and not of Grace,) but only to make the Lord gracious, and to exalt him in our present subjection, and in his future guift of Grace, in nature of a free bounteous reward. This I say is that Gospell Obedience, which by the Doctrine insisted on, is promoted in the soules of Believers.