A53688:1360
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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His Sections 8,1 & 9, contain an endeavour for the taking off, an Instance usually given of pressing to the use of means, where the end is infallibly promised to be accomplished and brought about, in and by the use of those means. And this is in the passage of Paul Acts 27. whereof something formerly hath ben spoken; Paul receives a Promise from God That none of the lives of the persons with him in the ship should perish; this he declares to his company and how deeply he was concerned in the accomplishment of the Promise, and his prediction ⟨p. 285⟩thereupon, upon the account of the undertaking wherein against almost all the World, he was then engaged, & the cause for which he was committed to their company and custody, was formerly declared. Notwithstanding this, he afterwards exhorts them, & directs to the use of all means imaginable, that were suitable for the fulfilling of the Promise he had, & the Prediction he had made. Evident it is then, that there is no Inconsistency, nor any thing unbecoming any perfection in God, in that compliance of Promises, & Exhortations which we insist upon: He having directed Paul, to walk in that very way and path. God (we say) in the Covenant of Grace, hath promised that his Saints shall never leave him, nor forsake him; that he will abide in unchangeable constancy to be their God; that he will preserve them, and keep them in his hand unto the Kingdom of his Son in glory, saving his Redeemed ones, with an everlasting Salvation, to the accomplishment of the End Promised, which he will upon the account of his Truth and Faithfulness bring about, by Means suitable unto, and instituted by him for that end. In the compassing and effecting of this great work, God dealeth with men under a twofold consideration.
His Sections 8,1 & 9, containe an endeavour for the taking off, an Instance usually given of pressing to the use of meanes, where the end is infallibly promised to be accomplished and brought about, in and by the use of those meanes. And this is in the passage of Paul Acts 27. whereof something formerly hath ben spoken; Paul receives a Promise from God That none of the lives of the persons with him in the ship should perish; this he declares to his company and how deeply he was concerned in the accomplishment of the Promise, and his prediction