A53688:1214
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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Ans. 1. Persuade your servants, your labourers if you can, of that great encouragement that lies in the the uncertainty of a reward, above that which may be had from an Assurance thereof: We are not as yet of that mind; And yet
Ans. 1. Perswade your servants, your labourers if you can, of that great encouragement that lyes in the the uncertainty of a reward, above that which may be had from an Assurance thereof: We are not as yet of that minde; And yet
2. We do not lay the only motive unto obedience, tendered by the Doctrine we contest for, on the certainty of reward which it asserteth: which yet is such, that without it all other must needs be of little purpose: but it hath also other advantageous influences into the promotion of Holiness, which in part have been insisted on.
2. We do not lay the only motive unto obedience, tendered by the Doctrine we contest for, on the certainty of reward which it asserteth: which yet is such, that without it all other must needs be of little purpose: but it hath also other advantagious influences into the promotion of Holinesse, which in part have been insisted on.
3. It seemeth, we say that God promiseth a Reward to them that shall not run a Race, because we maintain, that he promiseth it to none, but those who do run in a Race; promising withal to give them strength, power and will, that they may do so to the end.
3. It seemeth, we say that God promiseth a Reward to them that shall not runne a Race, because we maintaine, that he promiseth it to none, but those who do runne in a Race; promising withall to give them strength, power and will, that they may do so to the end.