A53688:429
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Persons,1 he tells you, are those, who are called according to the Purpose of God: That their calling here mentioned, is the Effectual call of God, which is answered, by Faith and Obedience, because it consists in the bestowing of them on the Persons so called, taking away the Heart of stone and giving a Heart of flesh, is not only manifest from that place, which afterwards receives in the Golden Chain of Divine Graces between Predestination and Justification, whereby the one hath infallible influencies into the other; but also from that precious description which is given of the same Persons, viz. that they Love God, which certainly is an Issue and fruit of Effectual Calling, as shall afterwards be further Argued. For to that Issue are things driven in this Controversy, that proofs thereof are become needful.
The Persons,1 he tells you, are those, who are called according to the Purpose of God: That their calling here mentioned, is the Effectuall call of God, which is answered, by Faith and Obedience, because it consists in the bestowing of them on the Persons so called, taking away the Heart of stone and giving a Heart of flesh, is not only manifest from that place, which afterwards receives in the Golden Chaine of Divine Graces betweene Predestination and Justification, whereby the one hath infallible influencies into the other; but also from that precious description which is given of the same Persons, viz. that they Love God, which certainely is an Issue and fruit of Effectuall Calling, as shall afterwards be further Argued. For to that Issue are things driven in this Controversy, that proofs thereof are become needfull.
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The Purpose according to which these persons are called, is none other then that, which the Apostle, cap. 9. 11. terms the Purpose of God according to Election, cap. 11. 5. The Election of Grace, as also the fore-Knowledge and Foundation of God, as will in the Progress of our Discourse be made farther appear, although I know not, that this is as yet questioned; The Immutability of this Purpose of God, cap. 9. 11, 12. The Apostle demonstrates from its Independency in any thing in them, or respect of them, concerning whom it is, it being Eternal, and expressly safeguarded against apprehensions, that might arise, of any causal or occasional influence from any thing in them given thereunto, they lying under this Condition alone unto God, as Persons that had done neither good nor evil. And this also the Apostle further pursues from the Sovereignty, Absoluteness, and Unchangeableness of the Will of God: But these things are of another Consideration.