A53688:270
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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Although the Substance of this Doctrine hath been by sundry delivered,1 yet least the terms, wherein it is usually done, may seem to be somewhat too General, and some advantages of the Truth, which in it self it hath, to have been omitted, I shall briefly state the whole matter under those Terms, wherein it is usually received.
Although the Substance of this Doctrine hath been by sundry delivered,1 yet least the termes, wherein it is usually done, may seeme to be somewhat too Generall, and some advantages of the Truth, which in it selfe it hath, to have been omitted, I shall breifely state the whole matter under those Termes, wherein it is usually received.
- 1§ 14.
The title of it is,1 the PERSEVERANCE OF SAINTS; A short discovery of whom we mean by Saints, the Subject whereof we speak, and what by Perseverance, which is Affirmed of them, will state the whole for the Judgement of the Reader. God only is essentially holy, and on that account,2 the only holy One. In his Holiness as in his Being, and all his Glorious Attributes,3 there is an actual permanency or sameness. Heb. 1. 10, 11, 12. Nothing in him is subject to the least shadow of change:4