A53688:1165
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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as that in the use of means, they shall wait upon him to the end; And that howsoever, or whensoever, by the power of Temptation, and surprisals of corruptions, they are carried aside from him, he will heal their back-slidings, and receive them freely, and though they change every day, yet he changeth not, and therefore they are not consumed. And hereby, I say, it confirms and strengthens their Faith in God, as a Father in Jesus Christ, taking everlasting care of them.
as that in the use of meanes, they shall waite upon him to the end; And that howsoever, or whensoever, by the power of Temptation, and surprisalls of corruptions, they are carried aside from him, he will heale their back-slidings, and receive them freely, and though they change every day, yet he changeth not, and therefore they are not consumed. And hereby, I say, it confirmes and strengthens their Faith in God, as a Father in Jesus Christ, taking everlasting care of them.
2. Of their Love there is the same reason; Gods love to us is of his free Grace; he loves us because so it seems good to him; Our Love to him, is purely ingenerated by his Love to us, and carried on, and increased by farther Revelations of his desirableness and excellency, to our souls; Herein is Love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us first: There is no Creature in the least guilty of sin, that can put forth any acceptable Act of Love towards God, but what is purely drawn out, upon the Apprehension of his Love and loveliness in his Grace and mercy; A man, I confess, may love God, when he hath no sense of his Love to him in particular: but it must all be built upon an apprehension of his Love to sinners, though he may come short in the Application; it is the terror of the Lord, that causes us to persuade others, but it is the Love of Christ that constraineth us to live to him. She loved much, to whom much was forgiven; Look then, the more abundant discoveries are made of the loveliness and desirableness in the riches of his Grace, the more effectual is the sole and only motive we have to love him, with that filial, chaste, Holy Love, that he requires.
2. Of their Love there is the same reason; Gods love to us is of his free Grace; he loves us because so it seemes good to him; Our Love to him, is purely ingenerated by his Love to us, and carried on, and increased by farther Revelations of his desireablenesse and excellency, to our soules; Herein is Love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us first: There is no Creature in the least guilty of sinne, that can put forth any acceptable Act of Love towards God, but what is purely drawn out, upon the Apprehension of his Love and lovelinesse in his Grace and mercy; A man, I confesse, may love God, when he hath no sence of his Love to him in particular: but it must all be built upon an apprehension of his Love to sinners, though he may come short in the Application; it is the terrour of the Lord, that causes us to perswade others, but it is the Love of Christ that constraineth us to live to him. Shee loved much, to whom much was forgiven; Looke then, the more abundant discoveries are made of the lovelinesse and desirablenesse in the riches of his Grace, the more effectuall is the sole and only motive we have to love him, with that fiiall, chast, Holy Love, that he requires.