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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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Besides, in the Case of Paul, though the infallibility of the Prediction did not in the least prejudice the Liberty of the Agents, who were to be employed for its accomplishment, but left room for the Exhortation of Paul, and the endeavours of the Soldiers, yet it cuts off all possibility of a contrary event and all supposal of a disjunctive purpose in God, upon the account whereof he cannot predict the issue, or event of any thing whatsoever. But of this more largely afterward.
Besides, in the Case of Paul, though the infallibility of the Prediction did not in the least prejudice the Liberty of the Agents, who were to be imployed for its accomplishment, but left roome for the Exhortation of Paul, and the endeavours of the Souldiers, yet it cutts off all possibility of a contrary event and all supposall of a disjunctive purpose in God, upon the accompt whereof he cannot predict the issue, or event of any thing whatsoever. But of this more largely afterward.
But this is farther Argued by Mr Goodwin, from the purposes of God in his threatenings, 1in these words. Most frequently the purpose and Decree of God, concerning the punishment of wicked and ungodly men, is expressed by the Holy Ghost, absolutely and certainly, without the least mention of any condition, of relaxation or reversion: yet from other passages of Scripture it is fully evident, that this Decree of his is conditional, in such a sense, which imports a non-execution of the punishment therein declared, upon the repentance of the Persons, against whom the Decree is. In like manner though the purpose and Decree of God, for the justification of those who are called, (and so for the Glorifying of those that shall be Justified) be (in the Scripture in hand) delivered in an absolute and unconditioned form of words; yet is it no way necessary to suppose, (the most familiar frequent, and accustomed expression in Scripture in such cases, exempting us from any such necessity) that therefore these Decrees must needs bring forth against all possible interveniences whatever; so that (for example) he that is called by the Word and Spirit, must needs be Justified, whether he truly Believe or no; and he that is Justified must needs be Glorified, whether he Persevere or no.