A53688:1172
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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It asserts it to be such a Fountain-love, as from whence continually streams of Grace, kindness, mercy, and Refreshment do flow: because he loves us with everlasting Love, therefore he draws us with Loving-kindness. Jer. 30. 1, 2▪ from that Love proceeds continual supplies of the Spirit and Grace, by which those, of whom it is said, they abide, are preserved lovely, and fit by him to be beloved. It tells us, that because God loves his people, therefore are they in hi• hand. Deut: 33. 3. It declares it to be such a Love, as is the Womb of all mercy: whence pardon, healing, recovery from wounds, sicknesses, and dying pangs do continually flow; A Love upon the account whereof, the Persons loved may make conclusion, that they shall lack nothing. Psal. 23. 1. A Love whose fruitfulness is subservient to its own constancy, preserving the Saints such, as he may rest in it unchangeably. Rom. 8. 29, 30. A Love, whereby God sings to his vineyard, watches over it, and waters it every moment. Isa. 27. 2, 3. And now what flint almost in the Rock of stone, would not be softened and dissolved by this Love? When we shall think, that it is from the Love of God, that our wasted portion hath been so often renewed, that our dying Graces have been so often quickened, our dreadful back-slidings so often healed, our breaches and decays so often repaired, and the pardon of our innumerable transgressions so often sealed, unless we suck the breasts of Tigers, and have nothing in us, but the nature of Wolves and unclean Beasts; can we hold out against the sweet, gracious, powerful, effectual influences, that it will have upon our souls; Thus I say, doth the Doctrine, which we have in hand, set out the Love of God unto us in his eminent endearing properties, wherein, he being embraced through Christ, a Foundation is laid, and eminent promotion given unto the Holiness and Obedience, which he requireth of us.
It asserts it to be such a Fountaine-love, as from whence continually streames of Grace, kindnesse, mercy, and Refreshment doe flow: because he loves us with everlasting Love, therefore he drawes us with Loving-kindnesse.