A53688:358
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.
The Gift and Grace of Vocation, is confessedly here intended, being expressly mentioned in the words [Greek or Hebrew], that Calling which is an effect of the Covenant of Grace. v. 28. consider we then what is the state of Men, when God first calls them, and gives them this gift and Favour, that if it seem so good, we may exhort them to a continuance therein.
The Gift and Grace of Vocation, is confessedly here intended, being expressely mentioned in the words 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, that Calling which is an effect of the Covenant of Grace. v. 28. consider wee then what is the state of Men, when God first calls them, and gives them this gift and Favour, that if it seeme so good, we may exhort them to a continuance therein.
Now this Sate with the Qualifications of it,1 is a State, 1. of Death, Joh. 5. 25. The Dead hear the voice of the Son of God. 2Christ speaks to them who are dead,3 and so they Live. 2. Of Darkness, Acts 25. 26. God calls them out of Darkness into his marvellous light, 41 Pet. 29. a State of Ignorance and Alienation from God, Ephes: 4. 18. The grace of Vocation or effectual calling, finding ⟨p. 35⟩men in a state of Enmity to God, and Alienation from him, if they may be prevailed withal, to continue such still, this gift shall never be recalled, nor repented of.