A53688:1158
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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Secondly, Of Care and diligence, that respecteth the means.
Secondly, Of Care and diligence, that respecteth the meanes.
And for the first it saith, that this is the portion of very many of the Saints of God, of some all their days, though they are so, yet they know not that they are so; and therefore are under anxious and doubtful fears of Hell, and Punishment, notwithstanding that they are in the arms of their Father, from whence indeed they shall not be cast down; as a man bound with chains on the top of a tower, he cannot but fear, and yet he cannot fall; He cannot fall, because he is fast bound with strong chains: He cannot but fear, because he cannot actually, and clearly consider, often times, the means of his preservation.
And for the first it saith, that this is the portion of very many of the Saints of God, of some all their dayes, though they are so, yet they know not that they are so; and therefore are under anxious and doubtfull feares of Hell, and Punishment, notwithstanding that they are in the armes of their Father, from whence indeed they shall not be cast downe; as a man bound with chaines on the toppe of a tower, he cannot but feare, and yet he cannot fall; He cannot fall, because he is fast bound with strong chaines: He cannot but feare, because he cannot actually, and clearely consider, often times, the meanes of his preservation.
And for the latter, a fear of the ways and means leading to punishment, as such, that continues upon all the Saints of God in this life; neither is there any thing in this Doctrine, that is suited to a removal thereof. And this, it says, is more, much more of use for the mortification of the flesh, then the former.