A53688:1401
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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Thirdly, that eternal death and destruction is not the only subject of God's Threatenings, nor all the evil that they may have a fear of, whom he deals withal by them; Desertion, Rejection, Rebukes, sharp and keen arrows, blows of Gods hand, Temporal death it self, with the like, are also threatened; yea and so often in an eminent and dreadful manner, have been inflicted, that though they might be supposed to have always some comfortable Assurance of Deliverance from the wrath that is to come, yet the Threatenings of God may be suited to beget in them this fear of evil to such an height, as may make their bowels to flow like water, rottenness to enter into their bones and all their joints to tremble.
Thirdly, that eternall death and destruction is not the only subject of God's Threatnings, nor all the evill that they may have a feare of, whom he deals withall by them; Desertion, Rejection, Rebukes, sharpe and keene arrowes, blowes of Gods hand, Temporall death it selfe, with the like, are also threatned; yea and so often in an eminent and dreadfull manner, have been inflicted, that though they might be supposed to have alwayes some comfortable Assurance of Deliverance from the wrath that is to come, yet the Threatnings of God may be suited to beget in them this feare of evill to such an heigth, as may make their bowels to flow like water, rottemesse to enter into their bones and all their joynts to tremble.
Fourthly, that the end of the Threatenings of God, being to discover to men the connection that is by his Appointment, between the sins exagitated and the punishment threatened, whence the Fear mentioned doth consequently ensue, they may obtain their full & primary effect, though that Fear be not ingenerated, If they be prevailed on, by any other Considerations, so that the sin be avoided.
Fourthly, that the end of the Threatnings of God, being to discouer to men the connexion that is by his Appointment, between the sinnes exagitated and the punishment threatend, whence the Feare mentioned doth consequently insue, they may obtaine their full & primary effect, though that Feare be not ingenerated, If they be prevailed on, by any other Considerations, so that the sinne be avoided.