A53688:1422
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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First, Though Love be not perfect to all degrees of Perfection here, yet it may have, yea it hath in the Saints the perfection of Uprightness and Sincerity, which is all that is here intended, and all that is required to it, for the casting out of that Tormenting Fear of which the Apostle speaks. Fear (saith he) hath torment: And if our Love cannot amount to that perfection, as to cast it out, it being only to be cast out thereby, it is impossible we should ever be freed from Torment all our days, or be filled with joy & Consolation in believing; which would frustrate the glorious design of God, which he hath sworn himself willing to pursue, Heb: 6. 13. and the great End of the death of Christ, which he hath perfectly accomplished, Heb: 2. 15.
First, Though Love be not perfect to all degrees of Perfection here, yet it may have, yea it hath in the Saints the perfection of Uprightnesse and Sincerity, which is all that is here intended, and all that is required to it, for the casting out of that Tormenting Feare of which the Apostle speaks. Feare (saith he) hath torment: And if our Love cannot amount to that perfection, as to cast it out, it being only to be cast out thereby, it is impossible we should ever be freed from Torment all our daies, or be fill'd with joy & Consolation in believing; which would frustrate the glorious designe of God, which he hath sworne himselfe willing to pursue, Heb: 6. 13. and the great End of the death of Christ, which he hath perfectly accomplished, Heb: 2. 15.
Secondly, It is true; there is a Fear, that Love cherisheth; the Fear that God hath promised in the Covenant of Grace, to preserve in our hearts all our days; But to say, it cherisheth the Fear we speak of, and which the Holy Ghost in this place intendeth, is expressly to make the Holy Ghost a liar, and […] contradict him to his face.
Secondly, It is true; there is a Feare, that Love cherisheth; the Feare that God hath promised in the Covenant of Grace, to preserve in our hearts all our daies; But to say, it cherisheth the Feare we speake of, and which the Holy Ghost in this place intendeth, is expressely to make the Holy Ghost a lyar, and 〈…〉 contradict him to his face.