A53688:1178
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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5. It naturally and sweetly mixeth with all the Ordinances of Christ,1 instituted for the end under Consideration. In particular, with that great Ordinance The Ministry of the Gospel, in reference to the great fruit and effect of it mentioned. Eph. 4. 12, 13. The perfecting of the Saints, the edifying of the Body of Christ, till we all come in the unity of the Faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. That which the Lord Jesus aimed at, and intended principally, in giving Pastors and Teachers to his Church, was that they might carry on the work of the Ministry, for the Perfecting of the Saints, and their filling up the measure allotted unto them; And this they do by revealing the whole Counsel of God unto them, keeping back nothing that's profitable for them as was the practice of Paul Act. 20. 27. Of this Counsel or Will of God, as by them managed, there are two parts.
5. It naturally and sweetly mixeth with all the Ordinances of Christ,1 instituted for the end under Consideration. In particular, with that great Ordinance The Ministry of the Gospell, in reference to the great fruit and effect of it mentioned. Eph. 4. 12, 13. The perfecting of the Saints, the edifying of the Body of Christ, till we all come in the unity of the Faith, and of the knowledge of the sonne of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulnesse of Christ. That which the Lord Jesus aimed at, and intended principally, in giving Pastors and Teachers to his Church, was that they might carry on the worke of the Ministry, for the Perfecting of the Saints, and their filling up the measure alotted unto them; And this they do by revealing the whole Councell of God unto them, keeping back nothing that's pro•itable for them as was the practice of Paul Act. 20. 27. Of this Councell or Will of God, as by them managed, there are two parts.