A53688:1441
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 Fear of Hell in Believers, as a part of the wrath of God, from which they are delivered by Christ, being opposed to all their Grace of Faith, Love, Hope, &c. is no principle of Obedience in them, whatever influence it may have on them as to restraint when managed by the hand of Gods Grace.
Thirdly, That Feare of Hell in Believers, as a part of the wrath of God, from which they are delivered by Christ, being opposed to all their Grace of Faith, Love, Hope, &c. is no principle of Obedience in them, whatever influence it may have on them as to restraint when managed by the hand of Gods Grace.
Fourthly That yet Believers can never be delivered from it but by Faith in the Blood of Christ, attended with sincere and upright walking with God; which when they fail of, though that Fear supposed to be predominant in the soul, be inconsistent with any comfortable cheering Assurance of the favour of God, yet it is not with the certain continuance to them of the thing it self, upon the account of the Promises of God.
Fourthly That yet Believers can never be delivered from it but by Faith in the Bloud of Christ, attended with sincere and upright walking with God; which when they faile of, though that Feare supposed to be predominant in the soule, be inconsistent with any comfortable chearing Assurance of the favour of God, yet it is not with the certaine continuance to them of the thing it selfe, upon the account of the Promises of God.
Section the sixteenth contains a large Discourse in answer to the Apostle,1 affirming that Fear hath torment, which is denied by our Author upon sundry Considerations; The Fear he intends is a Fear of Hell, and wrath to come; This he supposeth to be of such predominancy in the soul, as to be a principle of Obedience unto God; That this can be without Torment, Disquiet, Bondage and vexation he will not easily evince to the consciences of them, who have at any time been exercised under such a frame; What Fear is consistent with Hope, What incursions npon the souls of the Saints are made by dread and bondage, and Fear of Hell, and the use of such fears, How some are, though true Believers, scarcely delivered from such Fears, all their days, I have formerly declared: and that may suffice as to all our concernement in this Discourse.