A53688:367
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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Isaiah. 140. 27, 28, 29, 30, 31. Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest O Israel, my way is hid from the Lord and my Judgment is passed over from my God? hast thou not known, hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his Understanding. He giveth power to the faint, & to them that have no might, he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fail, but they that wait upon the Lord, shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings as as Eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. v. 27. Jacob and Israel make a double complaint, both parts of it manifesting some fear, or dread of Separation from God: for though in General it could not be so, yet in particular, Believers under Temptation, may question their own condition, with their right unto, and ⟨p. 35⟩interest in all the things, whereby their state and Glory is safeguarded. My way (say they) is hid from the Lord: The Lord takes no more notice, sets his heart no more upon my way, my walking, but lets me go and pass on as a stranger to him: And farther, My judgement is passed over from my God: Mine enemies prevail, perhaps Lusts, and Corruptions are strong, and God doth not appear in my behalf: Judgment is not executed on them, and what will be the issue of this my sad estate? What the Lord proposeth and holdeth out unto them for their Establishment in this condition, and to assure them that what they feared should not come upon them, he ushers in by an effectual expostulation, v. 27. Hast thou not heard? Hast not thou been taught it by the Saints that went before thee? Hast thou not known? Hast thou not found it true by experience? What it is he would have them take notice of, and which he so Pathetically insinuates into their understandings and affections, for their establishment, is an Exurgency of that Description of himself, which he gives v. 28. (1.) From his Eternity, he is the Everlasting God: (2.) From his Power, he is the Creator of the ends of the Earth: (3.) From Unchangeableness, he fainteth not, he waxeth not weary, and therefore there is no reason, he should relinquish or give over any design that he hath undertaken;