A53688:460
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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The Cases then foisted into the Apostles discourse,1 in the close of this Interpretation of the place (if I may so call it) namely, that God will justify the Called, in case they obstruct not his way; and will glorify them whom he hath justified, in case they continue and abide in the state of Justification, are First, thrust in without Ground, Warrant, or Colour of Advantage, or occasion given by any thing in the Text, or Context: and, Secondly, are destructive to the whole design of the Holy Ghost in the place whereinto they are intruded: injurious to the Truth of the Assertion intended to be made good, that all things shall work together for Good, proposed upon the account of the unchangeable purpose of God, and infallible Connection of the Acts of his Love and Grace in the Pursuit thereof: and resolve the promised work and designed event, wholly into the uncertain lubricous wills of men, making the Assurance given, not only to be liable to just Exceptions, but evidently to fail, and be falsified in respect of thousands: and, Thirdly, render the whole dispensation of the Grace of God to Lackey after the Wills of Men, and wholly to depend upon them, Giving in thereby (as was said) Innumerable Presumptions, that the word, for whose Confirmation all these Acts of Gods Grace are mentioned and insisted on, shall never be made good nor established.
The Cases then foisted into the Apostles discourse,1 in the close of this Interpretation of the place (if I may so call it) namely, that God will justify the Called, in case they obstruct not his way; and will glorify them whom he hath justified, in case they continue and abide in the state of Justification, are First, thrust in without Ground, Warrant, or Colour of Advantage, or occasion given by any thing in the Text, or Context: and, Secondly, are destructive to the whole designe of the Holy Ghost in the place whereinto they are intruded: injurious to the Truth of the Assertion intended to be made good, that all things shall work together for Good, proposed upon the account of the unchangeable purpose of God, and infallible Connexion of the Acts of his Love and Grace in the Pursuit thereof: and resolve the promised work and designed event, wholly into the uncertaine lubricous wills of men, making the Assurance given, not only to be lyable to just Exceptions, but evidently to faile, and be falsified in respect of thousands: and, Thirdly, render the whole dispensation of the Grace of God to Lackey after the Wills of Men, and wholly to depend upon them, Giving in thereby (as was said) Innumerable Presumptions, that the word, for whose Confirmation all these Acts of Gods Grace are mentioned and insisted on, shall never be made good nor established.