A53688:582
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
For our present purpose,1 the producing and vindicating of one or two Texts of Scripture, being unavoidably expressive towards the end aimed at, shall suffice.
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The first of those is Gen. 17. 7. I will establish my Covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in their generations, for an Everlasting Covenant, to be a God unto thee and thy seed after thee. This is that, which God engageth himself unto in this Covenant of Grace, that he will for everlasting be a God to him, and his Faithful Seed. Though the external Administration of the Covenant was given to Abraham, and his Carnal Seed, yet the effectual dispensation of the Grace of the Covenant is peculiar to them only, who are the Children of the Promise, the Remnant of Abraham according to Election, with all, that in all Nations were to be Blessed in him, and in his Seed Christ Jesus.1 Ishmael though Circumcised was to be put out, and not to be here with Isaac; nor to abide in the House for ever, as the Son of the Promise was: Now the Apostle tells you, look what Blessings Faithful Abraham received by virtue of this Promise, the same do all Believers receive. Gal. 3. 9. We which are of the Faith, are Blessed with Faithful Abraham: which he proves (in the words foregoing) from Gen. 12. 3. because all Nations were to be Blessed in him. What Blessing then was it, that was here made over to Abraham? All the Blessings, that from God are conveyed in & by his Seed Jesus Christ, (in whom both he and we are Blessed) are enwrapped therein. What they are the Apostle tells you