A53688:408
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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Isa. 46: 9, 10, 11. The Holy Ghost speaks expressly to our purpose;1 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the End from the beginning, and from ancient times, the things that are not yet done, saying my Counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure, calling a ravenous Bird from the East, the man that executes my counsel from a far Country: Yea I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it. v. 19. The Lord asserts his own Deity and Eternal Being, in opposition to all false Gods and Idols, whom he threatens to destroy. v. 1. Of this he gives them a threefold Demonstration.
Isa. 46: 9, 10, 11. The Holy Ghost speakes expressly to our purpose;1 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the End from the beginning, and from ancient times, the things that are not yet done, saying my Counsell shall stand, and I will doe all my pleasure, calling a ravenous Bird from the East, the man that executes my counsell from a far Country: Yea I have spoken it, I will also bring it to passe; I have purposed it, I will also doe it. v. 19. The Lord asserts his owne Deity and Eternall Being, in opposition to all false Gods and Idols, whom he threatens to destroy. v. 1. Of this he gives them a threefold Demonstration.
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First, from his Patience or fore-Knowledge, there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times, the things that are not yet done; In this am I infinitely discriminated from all the pretended Deities of the Nations: All things from the Beginning to the End are naked before me, and I have declared them by my Prophets, even things that are future and contingent in themselves; soe are the things that I now speak of, the destruction of Babylon by the Medes & Persians, a thing to be carried on through innumerable contingencies, and yet as I have seen it, so have I told it, and my counsel concerning it shall certainly be executed.