A53688:1506
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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Secondly,1 the proposition must be cast into an other mould, before it will be of any determinate signification in opposition to the Doct: it opposeth, & tuned to an other mood before it will give a certain sound to any battle against it; & this is, that no Act of the Creature that is wrought in order to the obtaining of any end promised to be certainly attained thereby, is rewardable of God; (though for Perseverance it is not any act of the Creature, but only a modus of its Obedience) and thus it looks towards the concernement of this Doctrine; yet before this proposition pass, to omit sundry other things that would gladly rise to the destruction of it, I desire one query may be assailed concerning the Obedience of Jesus Christ, Whether it were not necessary that the end of his Obedience should follow? and Whether it were not impossible he should decline from his Obedience? And if it were, whether it were impossible that God should give a Reward thereunto?
Secondly,1 the proposition must be cast into an other mould, before it will be of any determinate signification in opposition to the Doct: it opposeth, & tuned to an other mood before it will give a certaine sound to any battell against it; & this is, that no Act of the Creature that is wrought in order to the obtaining of any end promised to be certainely attained thereby, is rewardable of God; (though for Perseverance it is not any act of the Creature, but only a modus of its Obedience) and thus it lookes towards the concernement of this Doctrine; yet before this proposition passe, to omit sundry other things that would gladly rise to the destruction of it, I desire one query may be assailed concerning the Obedience of Jesus Christ, Whether it were not necessary that the end of his Obedience should follow? and Whether it were not impossible he should decline from his Obedience? And if it were, whether it were impossible that God should give a Reward thereunto?
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