A53688:423
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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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.
2. Secondly, There is a wide difference between the Change of what is Conditionally pronounced, as to the things themselves, and the change of what is Determinately willed: the certainty of whose event is proportioned to the Immutable Acts of the Will of God it self.
2. Secondly, There is a wide difference betweene the Change of what is Conditionally pronounced, as to the things themselves, and the change of what is Determinately willed: the certainty of whose event is proportioned to the Immutable Acts of the Will of God it selfe.
3. Thirdly, That no Purpose of God is Conditional, though the things themselves, concerning which his Purposes are, are often times conditionals one of another.
3. Thirdly, That no Purpose of God is Conditionall, though the things themselves, concerning which his Purposes are, are often times conditionalls one of another.