A53688:432
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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Herein also lies the Apostles second Eviction of Consolation, 1formerly laid down, even in the indissoluble Concatenation of those Acts of Grace, Love, and Favour, whereby the Persons of Gods Purpose, or the remnant, according to the Election of Grace, shall be infallibly carried on in their present enjoyment, and unto the full fruition of the Love of Christ. If we may take him upon his word (and he speaks in the name and Authority of God) those whom he doth fore-Know, or fixes his thoughts peculiarly upon, from Eternity, (for the term these, is evidently discriminated: & the Act must needs be Eternal, which in order of Nature is previous unto Predestination, or the appointment to the end by means designed,) those I say he doth Predestinate, and appoint in the Immutable Purpose of his Will, to be conformed unto the Image of his Son, as in afflictions, so in Grace and Glory;
Herein also lyes the Apostles second Eviction of Consolation, 1formerly layd downe, even in the indissoluble Concatenation of those Acts of Grace, Love, and Favour, whereby the Persons of Gods Purpose, or the remnant, according to the Election of Grace, shall be infallibly carried on in their present injoyment, and unto the full fruition of the Love of Christ. If we may take him upon his word (and he speakes in the name and Authority of God) those whom he doth fore-Know, or fixes his thoughts peculiarly upon, from Eternity, (for the terme these, is evidently discriminated: & the Act must needs be Eternall, which in order of Nature is previous unto Predestination, or the appointment to the end by meanes designed,) those I say he doth Predestinate, and appoint in the Immutable Purpose of his Will, to be conformed unto the Image of his Sonne, as in afflictions, so in Grace and Glory;
- 1§. 14.
To fancy a suspension of these Acts of Grace, (some whereof are Eternal) upon conditionals, and they not intimated in the least in the Text, nor consistent with the Nature of the things themselves, or the End intended, casting the Accomplishment and bringing about of the designs of God Proposed, as his, for our Consolation, upon the certain lubricity of the Wills of men, and thereupon to propose an intercision of them, as to their Concatenation, and Dependence, that they should not have a certain Influence on the one hand, descending; nor an Unchangeable dependence, on the other Ascending; may easily be made appear, to be so plain an opposition to the aim and design of the Apostle, as tis possibly capable of; But because these things are really insisted on by Mr Goodwin. I shall choose rather to remove them, as with much Rhetoric, and not without some Sophistry they are by him pressed, then further anticipate them, by arguments of the Text it self, of their invalidity and nullity.