A53688:338
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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For the Matter of these promises,1 they may be reduced to these three Heads. First of Justification. vers. 2. Secondly, of Sanctification v. 3, & 4. Thirdly, of Perseverance vers. 5, & 6. First, of Justification, Christ is Made to them, or Given unto them, for Beauty and Glory: which how it's done, the Holy Ghost tells us Isaiah 61 10. I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God, for he hath clothed me with the Garment of salvation, he hath covered me with the Robes of Righteousness, saith the Church: he puts upon poor deformed Creatures, the Glorious Robe of his own Righteousness, to make us Comely in his Presence, and the Presence of his Father. Zac. 13. 3, 4. Through Him, 2his being given unto us, made unto us of God Righteousness, 3becoming, the Lord our Righteousness, do we find free acceptation, as Beautiful and Glorious in the eyes of God.4 But this is not all: He doth not only Adorn us without,5 but also Wash us within: the Apostle acquaints us, that,6 that was his design, Ephes. 5. 25, 26. and therefore you have (Secondly) the promise of Sanctification added, verses 3, 4. v. 3. you have the thing it self, they shall be called holy, Made so, called so by him, who calleth things that are not as though they were, and by that Call, gives them to be that which he calls them;7 he said, let there be light, and there was light. And then the manner how it becomes to be so. v. 4. first setting out the Efficient cause: