A53688:244
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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The Truth which I have proposed to handle,1 and whose defence I have undertaken in the ensuing discourse,2 is commonly called, the PERSEVERANCE OF SAINTS;3 A Doctrine,4 whereof nothing ordinary, Low, or Common is spoken by any,5 that have engaged into the consideration of it. To some it is the very Salt of the Covenant of Grace, 6the most distinguishing mercy communicated in the blood of Christ,7 so interwoven into,8 and lying at the bottom of all that consolation, ⟨p. 2⟩which God is abundantly willing, that all the Heirs of the promise should receive; That it is utterly impossible it should be safe guarded one moment,9 without a persuasion of this truth, 10which seals up all the mercy and grace of the new Covenant, 11with the unchangeableness and faithfulness of God. To others, it is no grace of God,12 no part of the purchase of Christ, no doctrine of the Gospel, no foundation of consolation, but an invention of men, a delusion of Satan, an occasion of dishonour to God, disconsolation and perplexity to believers, a powerful temptation unto sin and wickedness in all that do receive it.