A53688:361
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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Is the case any other as to Justification? doth not God justify the ungodly? Ro. 4. 5. are we not in filthy Robes, when he comes to clothe us with Robes of Righteousness? Zech: 3. 3. are we not reconciled to God, when alienated by wicked works? Col: 1. 13. these are the Qualifications on which it seems God, grafts his Gifts and Graces: and whose abode in the Persons, in whom they are, is the condition, whereon the irrevocableness of those Gifts and Graces does depend: Who would have thought, they had been of such reckoning and esteem with the Lord?
Is the case any other as to Iustification? doth not God justify the ungodly? Ro. 4. 5. are we not in filthy Robes, when he comes to cloath us with Robes of Righteousnesse? Zech: 3. 3. are we not reconciled to God, when alienated by wicked workes? Col: 1. 13. these are the Qualifications on which it seemes God, grafts his Gifts and Graces: and whose abode in the Persons, in whom they are, is the condition, whereon the irrevocablenesse of those Gifts and Graces does depend: Who would have thought, they had been of such reckoning and esteeme with the Lord?
And this, considering what is learnedly discoursed elsewhere may suffice, as to the other Assertion;1 that God gives his Gifts and Graces to Qualifications, not to Persons. Those Qualifications are either Gifts of God, or not: if not, who made those men, in whom they are, differ from others? if they are, on what Qualifications, were those Qualifications bestowed? That God freely bestows on Persons, of his own good pleasure, not Grafting on Qualifications, his Gifts and Graces, we have Testimonies abundantly sufficient to out-balance M. Goodwins Assertions. Rom: 9. 18. He hath Mercy, on whom he will have Mercy: he bestows his Mercy and the fruits of it, not on this or that Qualification, but on whom or what Person he will, and to them it is given, saith our Saviour, to know the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God, but to others it is not given. I see no stock that his gift is grafted on, but only the Persons of Gods good will, whom he graciously designs to a Participation of it.