A53688:410
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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Secondly, by his Power in using what Instruments he pleaseth for the executing of his Purposes and bringing about his own designs; calling a ravenous Bird from the East: One that at first, when he went against Babylon, thought of of nothing less, then Executing the Counsel of God, but was wholly bent upon satisfying his own Rapine and Ambition, not knowing then in the least by whom he was Anointed & Sanctified for the Accomplishment of his Will. All the thoughts of this heart, all his Consultations & Actions, all his Progresses & Diversions, his Success in his great and dreadful undertaking to break in pieces that Hammer of the whole Earth, with all the free deliberations and contingencies, wherewith his long War was attended, which were as many, strong, 1and various, as the nature of things is capable to receive, were not only in every individual Act,2 with its minutest circumstances, by him foreseen, and much also fore told, but also managed in the hand of his Power in a regular subservience to that call, 3which he so gave that Ravenous Bird, for the Accomplishment of his Purpose and Pleasure.
Secondly, by his Power in using what Instruments he pleaseth for the executing of his Purposes and bringing about his own designes; calling a ravenous Bird from the East: One that at first, when he went against Babylon, thought of of nothing lesse, then Executing the Counsell of God, but was wholly bent upon satisfying his owne Rapine and Ambition, not knowing then in the least by whom he was Anoynted & Sanctifyed for the Accomplishment of his Will. All the thoughts of this heart, all his Consultations & Actions, all his Progresses & Diversions, his Successe in his great and dreadfull undertaking to breake in pieces that Hammer of the whole Earth, with all the free deliberations and contingencies, wherwith his long Warre was attended, which were as many, strong, 1and various, as the nature of things is capable to receive, were not only in every individuall Act,2 with its minutest circumstances, by him foreseene, and much also fore told, but also managed in the hand of his Power in a regular subservience to that call,