A53688:1357
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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1. A man may know how, and when, and on what account an Inheritance is settled on him by his Father; Of what God promiseth we have Faith only not Knowledge, properly so called; nor always the Assurance of Faith as to the enjoyment of the thing promised, but the Adherence of Faith, as to the Truth and Faithfulness of the Promiser. Nor
1. A man may know how, and when, and on what account an Inheritance is setled on him by his Father; Of what God promiseth we have Faith only not Knowledge, properly so called; nor alwaies the Assurance of Faith as to the injoyment of the thing promised, but the Adherence of Faith, as to the Truth and Faithfulnesse of the Promiser. Nor
2. Can a Father work in his Son that Obedience which he requireth of him, as He can do who Creates a new heart in us and writes his Law and Fear therein.
2. Can a Father worke in his Sonne that Obedience which he requireth of him, as He can do who Creates a new heart in us and writes his Law and Feare therein.
3. This Absolute engagement to bestow an Inheritance, whether the means of obtaining it be used, and insisted on or no, is a thing most remote from what we ascribe to the Lord in his Promises of Perseverance, which are only that Believers shall Persevere by the use of means, wch means he exhorts them to use, & yet dealing with them in a Covenant of Grace & Mercy, entered into upon account of their utter insufficiency in themselves to do the things that are well pleasing to him, whereunto they are so exhorted, He himself effectually and Graciously, according to the tenor of that Covenant works in them what he requires of them, bearing them forth, in the power of his Grace, to the use of the means appointed.