A53688:1295
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. The greatest inconsistency that can be imagined between Exhortations and Promises, as by us explained, is no more than this, that in one place God promiseth that unto us, as his Grace, which in an other he requires of us, as our duty, between which two, who ever feigns an Opposition, he doth his endeavour to set the Covenant of Grace, as to us proposed and declared, at variance with it self.
5. The greatest inconsistency that can be imagined between Exhortations and Promises, as by us explained, is no more than this, that in one place God promiseth that unto us, as his Grace, which in an other he requires of us, as our duty, between which two, who ever feignes an Opposition, he doth his endeavour to set the Covenant of Grace, as to us proposed and declared, at variance with it selfe.
The whole ensuing Discourse unto Sect 12.1 drawing deep upon an other Controversy (viz. the manner of the Operation of Grace) and being for the most part borrowed from what is delivered on that head in the Arminian writings,2 might be past over, as not of any necessary consideration in this place. What we assign to the Exhortations of the Word and their consistency with whatever else we teach of the Saints Perseverance being already heard, this Argument is at its proper issue. But the task undertaken is not to be waved or avoided, I shall therefore proceed to the discussion of it. Thus then he goes on,
The whole ensuing Discourse unto Sect 12.1 drawing deepe upon an other Controversy (viz. the manner of the Operation of Grace) and being for the most part borrowed from what is delivered on that head in the Arminian writings,2 might be past over, as not of any necessary consideration in this place. What we assigne to the Exhortations of the Word and their consistency with whatever else we teach of the Saints Perseverance being already heard, this Argument is at its properissue. But the taske undertaken is not to be waved or avoided, I shall therefore proceed to the discussion of it. Thus then he goes on,