A53688:436
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, to give in an Exposition of the place of Scripture insisted on, whence no such conclusion as that, which he opposeth (saith he) can be drawn.
1. First, to give in an Exposition of the place of Scripture insisted on, whence no such conclusion as that, which he opposeth (saith he) can be drawne.
2. Secondly, to give in Exceptions to our Interpretation of it, and the Inferences thereupon by us deduced. The first in these words.
For the scope of the Apostle, in the sequel of this passage, is clearly this, as the particle for in the beginning of vers. 29. plainly showeth, to prove and make good that Assertion of his v. 28. that all things work together for Good, to those that love God: to prove this, he showeth by what Method, and degrees of Dispensations God will bring it so to pass. Whom he fore-knows (saith he) that is, pre-approves, (the word Knowledge frequently in Scripture importing Approbation) as he must needs do those that love him, these he Predestinates to be conformed to the Image of his Son: and therefore as all things, even his deepest sufferings, wrought together for Good unto him; so must they needs do unto those, who are Predestinated, or Preordained by God to a Conformity with him; To give you yet, saith our Apostle, a farther and more particular account, how God in the secret of his Counsels, hath laid things in order to the bringing of them unto an actual conformity with the Image of his Son, to wit, in Glory, whom he Predestinated thereunto, (who are such as love him, and thereupon are approved by him) you are to understand, that whom he hath so Predestinated, he hath also Called, (that is) hath Purposed or Decreed to Call to the knowledge of his Son, or of his Gospel, (that is) to afford a more plain and effectual discovery of him unto them, then unto others, whom he hath not so Predestinated: By the way, this Call doth not necessarily suppose a Saving Answer given unto it by the Called, no whit more, then the Calling mentioned