A53688:1149
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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3.1 It puts high and unspeakable Obligations on the Saints to live to God, and to perfect Holiness in the fear of the Lord; Saints we suppose to have their Birth from above, to be begotten of the Will of God, through the immort all seed of the Word, and to be quickened with a Noble Child-like Ingenuity, befitting the family of God; Neither is any thing more injurious to the work of God's Grace, then to suppose, that those, whom God calls Children, Friends, Heirs of Heaven and Glory, his Crown, his Diadem, Brethren of his only Son, are to be dealt withal, or that God deals with them, as if they were wholly acted by a servile, slavish Principle, and were wholly under the power of such an unworthy disposition.
3.1 It puts high and unspeakable Obligations on the Saints to live to God, and to perfect Holinesse in the feare of the Lord; Saints we suppose to have their Birth from above, to be begotten of the Will of God, through the immort all seed of the Word, and to be quickened with a Noble Child-like Ingenuity, befitting the family of God; Neither is any thing more injurious to the worke of God's Grace, then to suppose, that those, whom God calls Children, Friends, Heirs of Heaven and Glory, his Crowne, his Diadem, Brethren of his only Sonne, are to be dealt withall, or that God deales with them, as if they were wholly acted by a servile, slavish Principle, and were wholly under the power of such an unworthy disposition.
- 1§. 12.
There are two things usually spoken to the prejudice and disadvantage of1 ⟨p. 235⟩the Truth we have under Consideration, much insisted on by Mr Goodwin, Cap: 9. As