A53688:1493
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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you I say that are fully and throughly persuaded and possessed with the truth of all these things, I earnestly charge, admonish, exhort, and beseech, that ye take heed to your selves, that ye continue in the Faith, that there be not at any time an evil heart of unbelief in any to depart from the Living God, that you fall not from your own steadfastness, yea I declare and profess unto you that if you shall draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in you, that if you shall deny me, I will deny you, that if you be again overcome of the lusts of the world, and be entangled here with, that your latter end shall be worse than your beginning, that if you shall turn away, all your former Righteousness shall not be remembered, but you shall dye in your sins, and suffer the vengeance of Eternal fire. On the other hand if you shall continue to the end, my Promise is, that you shall be Saved; therefore strive to enter in at the strait gate, quit your selves like men, labour for the meat that endureth unto Everlasting Life, and be not slothful, but followers of them, who through Faith and Patience inherit the Promises. He that shall duly weigh and consider, what a senseless and indeed ridiculous incongruity there is, between these Exhortations, Adjurations, Threatenings, and latter Promises, and those Declarations, Applications, and former Promises doubtless will confess that either the one, or the other of them are not from God, or according to the mind of God.
you I say that are fully and throughly perswaded and possessed with the truth of all these things, I earnestly charge, admonish, exhort, and beseech, that yee take heed to your selves, that yee countinue in the Faith, that there be not at any time an evill heart of unbeliefe in any to depart from the Living God, that you fall not from your owne stedfastnesse, yea I declare and professe unto you that if you shall draw back, my soule shall have no pleasure in you, that if you shall deny me, I will deny you, that if you be againe overcome of the lusts of the world, and be intangled here with, that your latter end shall be worse than your beginning, that if you shall turne away, all your former Righteousnes shall not be remembred, but you shall dye in your sinnes, and suffer the veugeance of Eternall fire. On the other hand if you shall continue to the end, my Promise is, that you shall be Saved; therefore strive to enter in at the straite gate, quit your selves like men, labour for the meat that indureth unto Everlasting Life, and be not sloathfull, but followers of them, who through Faith and Patience inherit the Promises. He that shall duly weigh and consider, what a sencelesse and indeed ridiculous incongruity there is, between these Exhortations, Adjurations, Threatnings, and latter Promises, and those Declarations, Applications, and former Promises doubtlesse will confesse that either the one, or the other of them are not from God, or according to the mind of God.