A53688:577
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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CAP. IV.
1. An entrance into the Consideration of the Covenant of Grace, and our Argument from thence, for the Unchangeableness of the Love of God unto Believers. 2. The intendment of the ensuing discourse. 3. Gen. 17. 3. opened and explained: with the confirmation of the Argument in hand from thence. 4. That Argument vindicated and cleared of Objections. 5. Confirmed by some observations. 6. Jerem. 32. v. 38, 39, 40. compared with Cap. 31. v. 32, 33. The Truth under consideration from thence clearly confirmed. 7. The certainty, immutability, and infallible accomplishment of all the Promises of the New Covenant, demonstrated. 1. From the removal of all causes of Alteration. 2. From the Mediator, and his undertaking therein. 3. From the Faithfulness of God. 8. One instance from the former considerations. 9. The endeavour of M. G. to Answer our Argument from this place. 10. His observation on, & from the Text, considered: 1. This promise not made to the Jews only: 2. Nor to all the Nation of the Jews, proved from Rom. 11: 3. not intending principally their deliverance from Babylon. 11. His inferences from his former observations weighed: 1. The Promise made to the body of the People of the Jews Typically only: 2. An Exposition borrowed of Socinus Rejected: 3. The Promise not appropriated to the time of the Captivity: and the disadvantage ensuing to M. G. cause upon such an Exposition. 12. The place insisted on compared with Ezek. 11. 17, 18, 19, 20. That place cleared: a 4th Objection Answered: this Promise always fulfilled: the Spiritual part of it accomplished during the Captivity: Gods intention not frustrated. How far the civill prosperity of the Jews was concerned in this Promise. Promises of Spiritual and Temporal things compared. The Covenant of Grace how far conditional. 13, 14. M. G's sense of this place expressed: borrowed from Faustus Socinus: the inconsistency of it with the mind of the Holy Ghost, demonstrated: also with what himself hath elsewhere delivered: no way suited to the Answer of our Argument from the place. 15. The same Interpretation farther disproved an immediate divine efficacy held our in the words: Conversion and pardon of sins promised: differenced from the Grace & Promises of the Old Covenant: Contribution of means put by M. G. in the place of effectual operation of the thing it self, farther disproved. 16.