A53688:546
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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That they may be raised up at the last Day, & so never be lost, neither as to their being, nor wellbeing of these two, v. 40. Everlasting Life, is placed before the Resurrection or raising of Believers at the last Day, plainly intimating, that the Spiritual Life whereof in this world they are partakers, is also as to its certain uninterruptible continuance, an Everlasting Life, that shall never be intercepted or cut off; That then which from this Portion of Scripture I Argue is this. God having Purposed to give Eternal Life to his Elect Believers, and that none of them should ever be lost, and having committed the Accomplishing and performance of this his Goodwill and Pleasure unto the Lord Jesus, who was Faithful unto him in all things, and endued with Power, (all Power from above) for that end, they shall certainly be Preserved to the end designed. The favour and Love of God, in Christ, shall never ⟨p. 85⟩be turned away from them, for his Counsel shall stand and he will do all his Pleasure.
That they may be raised up at the last Day, & so never be lost, neither as to their being, nor wellbeing of these two, v. 40. Everlasting Life, is placed before the Resurrection or raising of Believers at the last Day, plainely intimating, that the Spirituall Life whereof in this world they are partakers, is also as to its certaine uninteruptible continuance, an Everlasting Life, that shall never be intercepted or cut off; That then which from this Portion of Scripture I Argue is this. God having Purposed to give Eternall Life to his Elect Believers, and that none of them should ever be lost, and having committed the Accomplishing and perfomance of this his Goodwill and Pleasure unto the Lord Jesus, who was Faithfull unto him in all things, and indued with Power, (all Power from above) for that end, they shall certainely be Preserved to the end designed. The favour and Love of God, in Christ, shall never ⟨p. 85⟩be turned away from them, for his Counsell shall stand and he will doe all his Pleasure.