A53688:527
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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But it seems,1 we are all this while besides the intendment of the Apostle, whose Resolution of the Objection mentioned, is quite of another nature, then what we have hitherto insisted on; which Mr Goodwin thus represents: pag. 359. Cap. 14. Sect. 14.
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To this Objection or Scruple, the Apostle (in the words now in hand) Answereth, to this effect; that notwithstanding the falling away of men, who ever, or how many soever they be, yet the Glorious Gospel, and Truth of God therein, stands and always hath stood, firm and steadfast. Which Gospel hath the matter and substance of this saying in it, as a seal for the establishment of those, who are upright in the sight of God, viz.
To this Objection or Scruple, the Apostle (in the words now in hand) Answereth, to this effect; that notwithstanding the falling away of men, who ever, or how many soever they be, yet the Glorious Gospell, and Truth of God therein, stands and alwaies hath stood, firme and stedfast. Which Gospell hath the matter and substance of this saying in it, as a seale for the establishment of those, who are upright in the sight of God, viz.
The Lord knoweth, that is, takes special notice of, approveth, and delighteth in those that are his, that is, who truly Believe in him, love and serve him: yea and farther hath this Item, tending to the same end; Let every one that calleth upon the name of Christ, that is, makes profession of his name, depart from iniquity: so that in this Answer to the Scruple mentioned, the Apostle intimateth by way of satisfaction, that the reason, why men fall away from the Faith, is partly because they do not consider, what worthy respects God beareth to those, who cleave to him in Faith, and Love: partly also because they degenerate into loose and sinful courses, contrary to the Law imposed by the Gospel, and consequently, that there is no such danger of their falling away, who shall duly consider the one, and observe the other, inserting the stability of the Truth of God, in the Gospel, by the way of Antidote against the fears of those, that might possibly suspect it, because of the defections of others from it: he doth but tread in his own foot steps, else where in this very Chapter, if we Believe not, yet he abideth faithful, and cannot deny himself.