A53688:1410
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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Sect.1 the 14. he farther pleads from Heb. 11. 7. 2 Kings 22. 19, 20. That the eminentest and Holyest men that live may do many things from a principle of fear or of being afraid of the Judgments of God that they should come upon them, and upon that account have been put upon ways that were acceptable to God.
Sect.1 the 14. he farther pleades from Heb. 11. 7. 2 Kings 22. 19, 20. That the eminentest and Holyest men that live may do many things from a principle of feare or of being afraid of the Judgments of God that they should come upon them, and upon that account have beene put upon wayes that were acceptable to God.
- 1§. 59.
Ans. We know that the Fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom: and that the Fear of the Lord and his Goodness, is a great Mercy of the Covenant of Grace; This is not the thing here pleaded for: it is a thing quite of another nature, even that ascribed to the strange nations that were transplanted into Samaria, by the King of Syria, upon the captivity and removal of the ten tribes, and frightened by Lyons that destroyed some of them, who did yet continue to worship their own Idols, under the dread of God which was upon them, which is called the Fear of the Lord. To complete this fear 'tis required that a man have such an Apprehension of the coming of Hell and Wrath upon him, as that he be not relieved against it, by any interposal of Promise, or ought else from God, that he should be preserved in the way and path whereby he shall assuredly find deliverance, from that which he