A53688:1507
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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But thirdly,1 the intendment of this Proposition, as far as it concerns us, (and that indeed is with a respect to our Doctrine of the Efficacy of Grace, and not this of Perseverance) is this, That which is wrought in us, by the Effectual Grace of God is not capable of Reward from God; A Proposition which though capable of some plea and colour, taking Reward in a pure Legal sense; supposing the Persons seeking after it, to do it by a service, and duties proportioned unto it, yet is so openly and directly contradictory to the tenor & design of God in the Covenant of Grace by Jesus Christ, with the whole dispensation of the Spirit given to abide with Believers, for all the ends and purposes as to their Obedience, as I shall content my self to deny it expecting M. Goodwin's proofs of it; When rivers run backward, heavy things ascend &c.
But thirdly,1 the intendment of this Proposition, as farre as it concernes us, (and that indeed is with a respect to our Doctrine of the Efficacy of Grace, and not this of Perseverance) is this, That which is wrought in us, by the Effectuall Grace of God is not capable of Reward from God; A Proposition which though capable of some plea and colour, taking Reward in a pure Legall sence; supposing the Persons seeking after it, to do it by a service, and dutyes proportioned unto it, yet is so openly and directly contradictory to the tenour & designe of God in the Covenant of Grace by Jesus Christ, with the whole dispensation of the Spirit given to abide with Believers, for all the ends and purposes as to their Obedience, as I shall content my selfe to deny it expecting M. Goodwin's proofes of it; When rivers runne backward, heavy things ascend &c.
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Fourthly, for the flourish added to these Assertions, by comparing the acts of the Saints Obedience upon a supposition of the Grace of God working them in them, with their Natural actions of eating, drinking, sleeping as to their tendency to exalt the Glory of God in rewarding, it proceeds either from