A53688:1438
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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In the last division of this Section, 1he labours to prove that what is done from a principle of Fear may be done willingly and cheerfully, as well as that which is done from a principle of Love. To which briefly I say
In the last division of this Section, 1he labours to prove that what is done from a principle of Feare may be done willingly and chearefully, as well as that which is done from a principle of Love. To which briefely I say
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First, Neither Fear nor Love as they are mere natural Affections, are any principle of Spiritual Obedience as such.
First, Neither Feare nor Love as they are meere naturall Affections, are any principle of Spirituall Obedience as such.
Secondly, That we are so far from denying the usefulness of the Fear of the Lord to the Obedience of the Saints; That the continuance thereof in them to the end, is the great Promise for the certain Accomplishment whereof, we do contend.
Secondly, That we are so farre from denying the usefulnesse of the Feare of the Lord to the Obedience of the Saints; That the continuance thereof in them to the end, is the great Promise for the certaine Accomplishment whereof, we do contend.