A53688:286
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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1. That whereas by nature they are children of wrath as well as others, and dead in trespasses and sins, 1that faith and holiness which they are in due time invested withal, whereby they are made Believers and Saints, and distinguished from all others whatever, is an effect and fruit of, and flows from God's eternal purpose concerning their salvation or election: 2their faith being as to the manner of its bestowing peculiarly of the operation of God, and as to its distinction from every other gift, that upon any account what ever is so called,3 in respect of its fountain termed, The faith of Gods elect.
1. That whereas by nature they are children of wrath as well as others, and dead in trespasses and sinnes, 1that faith and holinesse which they are in due time invested withall, whereby they are made Believers and Saints, and distinguished from all others whatever, is an effect and fruit of, and flowes from God's eternall purpose concerning their salvation or election: 2their faith being as to the manner of its bestowing peculiarly of the operation of God, and as to its distinction from every other gift, that upon any account what ever is so called,3 in respect of its fountaine termed, The faith of Gods elect.