A53688:556
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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Ans. For the perverting of v. 37. the beginning of it was left out; and for the accomplishing of the like designs upon v. 39. 40 (which farther clears the mind and intendment of Christ in the words,) is omitted: He tells you,1 that it is the Will of the Father, that every one that comes to him, that is, that Believes on him, have Everlasting life: What is Everlasting life in the Gospel, is well known from Joh: 17. 3. and unto this bestowing on them everlasting Life, his raising of them at the last Day (as was mentioned) is a necessary consequent: namely, that they may be brought to the full and complete fruition of that life, which here in some measure they are made partakers of. Even in the words of v: 39. that passage (I should loose nothing) extends it self to the whole Compass of our Saviours Duty, in reference to his Fathers Will, for the safe-guarding of Believers: and is it only death, and the state of dissolution of Body and Soul, that it is the Will of God that he should deliver them from? ⟨p. 89⟩and the power of that, that it should not have dominion over them in the morning? The Apostle tells us that he came to do the will of God, whereby we are sanctified: Heb: 10. 9, 10. it was the Will of God, that he should sanctify us: and he tells his Father, that he had kept all his own in the World, Joh: 17. which doubtless was not his raising them from the dead. If he be the Mediator of the Covenant of Grace, if the Promises of God be yea and amen in him, if he be our Head, Husband, and Elder Brother, our Advocate and Intercessor, our Shepherd and Saviour, his keeping us from being lost extends it self no less effectually to our preservation from utter ruin in this life, then to our raising at the last day; yea and that exceptive particle ([Greek or Hebrew]) includes this preservation, as well as leads us to the addition of the other Favour and Privilege of being raised to Glory at the last day. In a word, this whole discourse is added to make good that Gracious Promise of our Saviour v: 35. He that cometh to me, shall never hunger: and he that Believes on me, shall never thirst;
Ans. For the perverting of v. 37. the beginning of it was left out; and for the accomplishing of the like designes upon v. 39. 40 (which farther clears the mind and intendment of Christ in the words,) is omitted: He tells you,1