A53688:317
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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What then, hath the Lord Promised to give them such continued supplies of his Spirit & Grace in Jesus Christ, as that they shall be supported against all opposition, ⟨p. 23⟩and preserved from all, or any such sins as will certainly make a separation between God and their Souls? Nay there is not one such Promise in all the Book of God; they are Conditional, for the enjoyment of the good things, whereof Believers stand all their days upon their good behaviour? Is it then that the Lord Jesus, who is always heard of his Father, intercedes for them, that their Faith fail not, & that they may be preserved by the power of God unto Salvation, & that not only upon Condition of their Believing, but chiefly, that they may be kept and preserved in Believing? Or is it that their Enemies are so conquered for them, and on their behalf, in the Death and Resurrection of Christ, that they shall never have dominion over them, that their Security doth arise? Neither the one, nor the other, nor any, nor all of these, are the Grounds, and Foundations of their Establishment, but they are wholly given up to the powerful hand of some Considerations, which M. Goodwin expresseth and setteth out to the life, Cap. 9. Sect. 32, 33, 34. Pag. 174, 175.
What then, hath the Lord Promised to give themsuch continued supplyes of his Spirit & Grace in Jesus Christ, as that they shall be supported against all opposition, ⟨p. 23⟩and preserved from all, or any such sinnes as will certainely make a separation betweene God and their Soules? Nay there is not one such Promise in all the Booke of God; they are Conditionall, for the injoyment of the good things, whereof Believers stand all their dayes upon their good behaviour? Is it then that the Lord Jesus, who is alwais heard of his Father, intercedes for them, that their Faith faile not, & that they may be preserved by the power of God unto Salvation, & that not only upon Condition of their Believing, but cheefly, that they may be kept and preserved in Believing? Or is it that their Enemies are so conquered for them, and on their behalfe, in the Death and Resurrection of Christ, that they shall never have dominion over them, that their Security doth arise? Neither the one, nor the other, nor any, nor all of these, are the Grounds, and Foundations of their Establishment, but they are wholy given up to the powerfull hand of some Considerations, which M. Goodwin expresseth and setteth out to the life, Cap. 9. Sect. 32, 33, 34. Pag. 174, 175.