A53688:176
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Non gloriabor, quia justus sum, sed gloriabor quia redemptus sum, gloriabor non quia vacuus peccati sum, sed quia mihi remissa sunt Peccata, non gloriabor quia profui, nec quia profuit mihi quisquam, sed quia advocatus pro me apud Patrem Christus est, sed quia pro me Christi sanguis effusus est.—Haeredem te fecit, Cohaeredem Christi, Spiritum tibi adoptionis infudit. Sed vereris dubios vitae anfractus & adversarit insidias, cûm habeas auxilium Dei, habeas tantam ejus dignationem, ut filio proprio pro te non peperce•it?—nihîl enim excepit, qui omnium concessit Authorem. Nihil est igitur quod negari posse nobis ver•••ur; nihil est in quo de munificantiae divinae diffidere perseverantia debeamus▪ eujus fuit tan• diutu•na & jugis abertal, ut primò praedestinaret, deinde, vocanet, & quos vocavit has & justificaret, & quos justificaret has & glorificaret. Poterit de•erere quos tantis beneficiis neque ad pr•mia prosecutus est? Inter •ot beneficia Dei, num metuend• sunt aliquae accusationis insidea? sed quis audeat accusare quos electos divine ce•nit judicia? num Dous pater ipse qui Contulit, potest dona sua res•i•dere, & quos adaptione suscapit, eos à paterni affectâs gratiâ religare? sed metus est ne judea severior sit, confidera qu•m judicem habeas; nempe Christo dedit pater omne judicium: poterit te ergò ille demnare, quem redemit à morte, pro quo s• abtulit, cujus vitam suaemortis mercedem esse cognescit? nonne decit quae utilitas in sanguine meo, si damno quem ipse salvavi? deinde consideras judicem, non consideras advocatum?