A53688:468
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.
1. (First,) in the one, there is express mention of the Purpose of God, and that his Eternal Purpose: in the other, only a Promise expressly Conditional in the giving, of it, amounting to no more then a Law, without the least intimation of any Purpose or Decree.
1. (First,) in the one, there is expresse mention of the Purpose of God, and that his Eternall Purpose: in the other, only a Promise expressly Conditionall in the giving, of it, amounting to no more then a Law, without the least intimation of any Purpose or Decree.
2. (Secondly,) The one encompasseth the whole design of the Grace of the Gospel; the other mention not any special Grace at all.
2. (Secondly,) The one incompasseth the whole designe of the Grace of the Gospell; the other mention not any speciall Grace at all.
3. (Thirdly,) the one is wholly expressive of the Acts of God, and his design therein; the other declarative of the Duty of man, with the issue there upon depending. This then is the strength of this Argument. God approving the Obedience of a man tells him, that upon the Continuance of that Obedience in him, and his, he will continue them an Office in his service; (a temporal mercy, which might be enjoyed without the least saving Grace) and which upon his Disobedience, he threateneth to take from him: (both Promise & threatening being declarative of his approbation of obedience, & his annexing the Priesthood thereunto, in that family) therefore God intending the consolation of Elect Believers, affirming that all things shall work together for their good, upon this Account, that he hath Eternally Purposed to preserve them in his Love, and to bring them to him self by such Effectual Acts of his Grace, as whose Immutable dependence one upon the other, & all upon his own Purpose cannot be interrupted, and therefore such, as shall infallibly produce and work in them all the obedience, which for the end proposed he requires. His Purposes I say thus mentioned, must be of the same Import with the declaration of his Will in the other place spoken of; If such a Confounding of the Decrees and Denuntiations, Absolute Purposes, and Conditional Promises, Spiritual things with Temporal, & the General Administration of the Covenant of Grace in Christ, with Special Providential Dispensations may be allowed, there is no man needs to despair of proving any thing he hath a mind to assert.