A53688:592
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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2. Secondly, That the way the Lord proposeth to secure his Love to his, is upon terms of Advantage of Glory and Honour to himself, to take away all scruple which on that hand might arise, is fully also expressed: Sin is the only differencing thing between God and man; and hereunto it hath a double influence: First, Moral in its guilt, deserving that God should cast off a sinner, and prevailing with him upon the account of justice so to do; Secondly, Efficient, by causing men through its power and deceitfulness, to depart from God,1 until, as back-sliders in heart, they are filled with their own ways. Take away these two, provide for Security on this hand, and there is no possible case imaginable, of separation between God and man once brought together in Peace and Unity. For both these doth God here undertake; for the first (saith he) I will forgive their Iniquities, and remember their sins no more. ⟨p. 99⟩Cap. 31. 34. The guilt of sin shall be done away in Christ, and that on terms of the greatest Honour and Glory to the Justice of God, that can be apprehended; God hath set forth Christ to be a Propitiation through Faith in his Blood, to declare his Righteousness for the Remission of sins that are past. Rom. 3. 25. And for the latter, that that may be throughly prevented, saith God the care shall lie on me, I will put my Law in their Hearts & write it in their inward parts. Cap. 31. 33. I will put my fear in their inward parts, that they shall not depart from me. Cap. 32. 40. So that the Continuance of his Love is secured against all possible interveniences whatever, by an assured prevention of all such that have an inconsistency therewithal.
2. Secondly, That the way the Lord proposeth to secure his Love to his, is upon termes of Advantage of Glory and Honour to himselfe, to take away all scruple which on that hand might arise, is fully also expressed: Sinne is the only differencing thing between God and man; and hereunto it hath a double influence: First, Morall in its guilt, deserving that God should cast off a sinner, and prevailing with him upon the account of justice so to doe; Secondly, Efficient, by causing men through its power and deceitfulnesse, to depart from God,1