A53688:406
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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On this supposal, the Immutability of the Decrees of God, would plainly be coincident with the Immutability of his Nature before handled.
On this supposall, the Immutability of the Decrees of God, would plainely be coincident with the Immutability of his Nature before handled.
It is then of the Decrees and Purposes of God, with respect to the matter about which they are, whereof I speak, in which regard also they are Absolute ⟨p. 50⟩and Immutable, not that they work any essential Change in the Things themselves, concerning which they are, making that to be Immutable from thence, which in its own Nature is Mutable, but only that themselves as Acts of the Infinite Wisdom and Will of God, are not liable to, nor suspended on any Condition whatever foreign to themselves, nor subject to change or Alteration (whence floweth an infallible certainty of actual Accomplishment in reference to the things Decreed or Purposed, be their own nature what it will, or their next causes in themselves never so undetermined to their Production) whereof I treat. That the determining Purposes or Decrees of Gods will concerning any thing, or things, by him to be done, or effected, do not depend as to their Accomplishment, on any conditions, that may be supposed in, or about the things themselves, whereof they are, and therefore are Unchangeable and shall certainly be brought forth unto the appointed Issue,1 is that, which we are to prove. Knowing for whose sakes, and for what End this labour was undertaken, I shall choose to lay the whole proof of this Assertion upon plain Texts of Scripture,2 rather then mix my Discourse with any such Philosophical Reasonings, as are of little use to the most of them, whose benefit is hereby intended.
It is then of the Decrees and Purposes of God, with respect to the matter about which they are, whereof I speake, in which regard also they are Absolute