A53688:351
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.
Now the foundation of this the Scripture lays upon Five unchangeable things, 1which eminently have an influence into the Truth thereof. (First) of the Nature: (Secondly) Purposes: (Thirdly) the Covenant: (Fourthly) the Promises: (Fifthly) the Oath of God. Every one whereof being engaged herein, the Lord makes use of to manifest the Unchangeableness of his Love towards those, whom he hath once graciously accepted in Christ.
Now the foundation of this the Scripture layes upon Five unchangeable things, 1which eminently have an influence into the Truth thereof. (First) of the Nature: (Secondly) Purposes: (Thirdly) the Covenant: (Fourthly) the Promises: (Fiftly) the Oath of God. Every one whereof being ingaged herein, the Lord makes use of to manifest the Vnchangeablenesse of his Love towards those, whom he hath once graciously accepted in Christ.
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First he hath laid the shoulders of the Unchangeableness of his own nature to this work:1 Malac. 3. 6. I am the Lord, and I change not: therefore ye Sons of Jacob, 2are not consumed. These Sons of Jacob are the Sons of the Faith of Jacob, the Israel of God, not all the seed of Jacob according to the flesh: the Holy Ghost in this Prophesy makes an eminent distinction between these two. Cap. 3. 16. Cap. 4. 1, 2. The beginning of this Chapter contains a most evident and clear prediction and Prophesy of the bringing in of the Kingdom of Christ,3