A53688:499
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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His first Reason is this: If the Apostle should frame this Series or Chain of Divine Acts, with an intent to show or teach the uninterruptiblenesse of it, in what case, or cases soever, he should fight against his General, and main scope or design in that part of the chapter, which lieth from v. 17. Which clearly is this, to encourage them to constancy, and Perseverance in suffering afflictions. For to suggest any such thing, as that being Called & Justified, nothing could hinder them from being Glorified, were to furnish them with a ground, on which to neglect his exhortation; for who will be persuaded to suffer Tribulation for the obtaining of that, which they have sufficient Assurance given, that they shall obtain, whether they suffer such things or no: therefore certainly the Apostle did not intend here to teach the certainty of Perseverance in those that are Justified.
His first Reason is this: If the Apostle should frame this Series or Chaine of Divine Acts, with an intent to shew or teach the uninterruptiblenesse of it, in what case, or cases soever, he should fight against his Generall, and maine scope or designe in that part of the chapter, which lyeth from v. 17. Which clearely is this, to encourage them to constancy, and Perseverance in suffering afflictions. For to suggest any such thing, as that being Called & Justified, nothing could hinder them from being Glorified, were to furnish them with a ground, on which to neglect his exhortation; for who will be perswaded to suffer Tribulation for the otaining of that, which they have sufficient Assurance given, that they shall obtaine, whether they suffer such things or no: therefore certainely the Apostle did not intend here to teach the certainty of Perseverance in those that are Justified.