A53688:1145
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. It removeth and taketh out of the way all discouragements whatsoever, all things which are apt to interpose to the weakening of their Faith in God, or their Love to God, which, as hath been said, are at the bottom of all Obedience and Holiness, that is acceptable to God in Christ; Now these may all be referred unto two heads.
1. It removeth and taketh out of the way all discouragements whatsoever, all things which are apt to enterpose to the weakning of their Faith in God, or their Love to God, which, as hath been said, are at the bottome of all Obedience and Holinesse, that is acceptable to God in Christ; Now these may all be referred unto two heads.
1. Of perplexing anxious fears, 1which are apt to impair and weaken the Faith of the Saints. 2. Of hard thoughts of God, which assault and shake their Love. That slavish, perplexing, troublesome fears, are contrary to the free and ingenuous state of Children, whereunto the Saints are admitted, and (however sometimes, yea oftentimes, they are at the bottom, and the occasion of burden some, servile, and superstitious Obedience) Impairers of their Faith, I suppose, I need not labour to prove. That kind of Fear, whereof we speak, (of which more afterwards) is the greatest Traitor, that lurks in the soul; To fear the Lord and his Goodness, 2is the souls Keeper; but this servile perplexing fear, is the Betrayer of it, in all its ways, and that which sours all its duties; A thing which the Lord sets himself against, in rebukes, reproofs, dehortations, as much as any failing and miscarriage in his Saints whatever. It is the opposite of Faith; hence the fearful and unbelieving are put together in their exclusion from the new Jerusalem. Rev: 20. 8. it is that, which is direct contrary to that, which the Apostle adviseth the Saints unto, Heb: 10. 19, 20, 21, 22. it is that which mixeth Faith with staggering, Rom: 4. 20. Prayer with wavering, making it ineffectual: