A53688:421
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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6. Sixthly, by demonstrating the Unreasonableness, Folly, and Impossibility, of suspending the Acts, and Purposes of the Will of God, upon any actings of the Creatures whatsoever: seeing it cannot be done without subjecting Eternity to time, the first Cause to the second, the Creator to the Creature, the Lord to the Servant; disturbing the whole order of Beings and Operations in the world.
6. Sixtly, by demonstrating the Vnreasonablnesse, Folly, and Impossibility, of suspending the Acts, and Purposes of the Will of God, upon any actings of the Creatures whatsoever: seeing it cannot be done without subjecting Eternity to time, the first Cause to the second, the Creator to the Creature, the Lord to the Servant; disturbing the whole order of Beings and Operations in the world.
7. Seventhly, by the removal of all Possible, or Imaginary Causes of Alteration and change: which will all be resolved into impotency in one kind, or other. Every Alteration being confessedly an imperfection, it cannot follow but from want and weakness, Upon the Issue of which Discourse, if it might be perused, these Corollaries would ensue;
7. Seventhly, by the removeall of all Possible, or Imaginary Causes of Alteration and change: which will all be resolved into impotency in one kind, or other. Every Alteration being confessedly an imperfection, it cannot follow but from want and weaknesse, Upon the Issue of which Discourse, if it might be perused, these Corollaries would insue;
1. First, Conditional Promises, and Threatenings, are not declarative of Gods Purposes concerning Persons, but of his Moral Approbation or Rejection of Things.
1. First, Conditionall Promises, and Threatnings, are not declarative of Gods Purposes concerning Persons, but of his Morall Approbation or Rejection of Things.