A53688:447
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.
Thus far then we have carried on the sense affixed to these words,1 if it may so be called, which is evidently contradictious in it self, and in no one particular suited to the mind of the Holy Ghost.
Thus farre then we have carried on the sence affixed to these words,1 if it may so be called, which is evidently contradictious in it selfe, and in no one particular suited to the minde of the Holy Ghost.
- 1§. 17.
He proceeds, To give you yet, saith our Apostle, a farther and more particular Account, how God in the secret of his Counsel, hath belaid things in order &c.
He proceeds, To give you yet, saith our Apostle, a farther and more particular Account, how God in the secret of his Counsell, hath belaid things in order &c.
This expression (God hath belaid things in order to the Salvation of them that love him,) is the whole of the Assurance here given by the Apostle, to the Assertion formerly laid down for the Consolation of Believers: and this, according to the Analogy and Proportion of our Authors Faith, amounts only thus far: you that Love God, if you continue so to do, you will fall under his Predestination; and if you abide under that, he will call you, so as that you may farther obey him, or you may not: if you do obey him, and believe upon his Call (having loved him before) he will Justify you; not with that Justification which is final, of which you may come short; but with initial Justification, which if you continue in, and walk up unto, Solvite curas when you are dead in your graves: This is called Gods belaying of things in his secret Counsel, whereby the total Accomplishment of the first engagement is cut off from the Root of Gods Purposes, and Branches of his effectual Grace in the pursuit thereof, and grafted upon the wild Olive of the Will of man, that never did, nor never will bear any wholesome fruit of it self to Eternity. What is afterward added, of the Qualification of those whom God Predestinates, being an intrusion of another false Hypothesis, for the Confirmation of an Assertion of the same alloy, is not of my present consideration; But he adds: ye are to understand, that whom he hath Predestinated, he hath also Called, hath purposed or Decreed to Call, to the Knowledge of his Son, or his Gospel, as before &c.