A53688:341
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
and this is indeed, all the Glory of the Elect of God, even the presence of Christ with them, as their Justification, and Sanctification, their Righteousness and Holiness.
and this is indeed, all the Glory of the Elect of God, even the presence of Christ with them, as their Justification, and Sanctification, their Righteousnesse and Holynesse.
The matter of the Promise made in reference to his Glory and them upon whom it doth abide,1 Is, that they shall be a defence upon it: the word Translated here a defence comes from a root, that is but once read in Scripture. Deut. 33. 12. Where it is rendered to cover: The Lord shall cover him all the day long. So it properly signifies. From a Covering, to a Protection, or a defence, is an easy Metaphor, a covering being given for that end and purpose. And this is the native signification of the word Protego, 2to defend by covering, as Abimelek called Abraham the covering of Sarahs eyes, or a protection to her Gen. 20. 16. The Allusion also of a Shade, which in Scripture is so often taken for a defence, 3ariseth from hence. This word it self is used twice more, and in both places signify a Bridechamber, 4Psal. 19. 6. Joel 2. 16. From the peace, covert, and protection of such a place. The name of the Mercy seat is also of ⟨p. 30⟩