A53688:354
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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Hence Rom. 11. 29. The gifts and calling of God are said to be without Repentance: 1the gifts of his effectual calling ([Greek or Hebrew]) shall never be repented of: They are from him, with whom there is no change.
Hence Rom. 11. 29. The guifts and calling of God are said to be without Repentance: 1the guifts of his effectuall calling (〈non-Latin alphabet〉) shall never be repented of: They are from him, with whom there is no change.
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The words are added by the Apostle, to give Assurance of the certain Accomplishment of the Purpose of God towards the Remnant of the Jews, according to the Election of Grace. What the principle mercies were, that were in Gods intendment to them, and whereof by their effectual calling they shall be made partakers, he tells us v. 26, 27. The Deliverer or Redeemer, which comes out of Zion, shall, according to the Covenant of Grace, turn them from ungodliness, the Lord taking away their sin. Sanctification and Justification by Christ, the two main Branches of the New Covenant: (Jerem. 31. 42. Jerem. 32. Ezek: 36. Heb: 8. 13, 14. chap: 10. 17, 18.) do make up the Mercy purposed for them. The certainty of the Collation of this Mercy upon them, notwithstanding the interposition of any present obstruction (amongst which their Enmity to the Gospel was most eminent, and lay ready to be objected) the Apostle argueth from the Unchangeableness of the Love of Election, wherewith the Lord embraced them from Eternity; as touching the Election they are beloved: and farther to manifest on that account, the fulfilling, of what he is in the proof and Demonstration of, viz. that though the major part of Israel according to the flesh, were rejected, yet the Election should obtain, and all