A53688:369
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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Hereupon also he anticipates an Objection, by way of Concession, v. 30. Even the youth shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fail. Men that seem to have a great stock of strength and Ability, may yet fail and perish utterly: An objection which, as I formerly ⟨p. 38⟩observed, these days have given great force unto: We see many, who seem to have the vigour of youth, and the strength of young men, in the ways of God, that have fainted in their course, and utterly failed; they began to run well, but lay down almost at the entrance; and be it so, saith the Lord, it shall so come to pass indeed: many that go out in their own strength, shall so fall and come to nothing: But what is that to thee, O Jacob, my chosen, thou that waitest upon the Lord? v. 31. The unchangeable God will so make out strength to thee, that thou shalt never utterly faint, nor give over, but abide flying, running, walking, with speed, strength, and steadfastness, unto the end. That expression, they that wait upon the Lord, is a Description of the Persons, to whom the Promise is made, and not a condition of the Promise it self. It is not, if they wait upon the Lord, but, they that wait on the Lord: if it were a Condition of this Promise, there were nothing promised; it is only said, if they wait on the Lord, they shall wait on the Lord: But of the vanity of such conditionals I shall speak afterwards.
Hereupon also he anticipates an Objection, by way of Concession, v. 30. Even the youth shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly faile. Men that seeme to have a great stock of strength and Ability, may yet faile and perish utterly: An objection which, as I formerly ⟨p. 38⟩observed, these daies have given great force unto: We see many, who seem to have the vigor of youth, and the strength of young men, in the wayes of God, that have fainted in their course, and utterly failed; they began to runne well, but lay downe almost at the entrance; and be it so, saith the Lord, it shall so come to passe indeed: many that goe out in their own strength, shall so fall and come to nothing: But what is that to thee, O Jacob, my chosen, thou that waitest upon the Lord? v. 31. The unchangeable God will so make out strength to thee, that thou shalt never utterly faint, nor give over, but abide flying, running, walking, with speed, strength, and stedfastnesse, unto the end. That expression, they that wayt upon the Lord, is a Description of the Persons, to whom the Promise is made, and not a condition of the Promise it selfe. It is not, if they waite upon the Lord, but, they that waite on the Lord: if it were a Condition of this Promise, there were nothing promised; it is only said, if they wait on the Lord, they shall waite on the Lord: But of the vanity of such conditionalls I shall speak afterwards.