A53688:595
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. Seeing that God and man, having been at so great a distance, as they were by sin, must needs meet in some Mediator, some middle person in whom, and by whose blood, (as covenants usually were confirmed ⟨p. 100⟩by blood) this Covenant must be ratified; consider who this is, and what he hath done for the establishing of it. There is one God, and one Mediator between God and Man, the Man Christ Jesus. 1 Tim. 2.5. He is the surety of this Testament. Heb. 7. 22. The Mediator of this better Covenant, established upon better Promises Heb: 8. 6. neither is this surety or Mediator subject to change. He is the same yesterday, to day, and for ever. Heb. 13. 8. But though he be so in himself, yet is the work so, that is committed to him? saith the Apostle, all the Promises of God are yea and amen in Jesus Christ, to the glory of God by us, 2 Cor: 1. 20. God hath in him, and by him, ascertained all the Promises of the Covenant, that not one of them should be broken, disannulled, frustrate, or come short of an Accomplishment. God hath so confirmed them in him, that he hath at his death made a Legacy of them, and bequeathed them in a Testamentary dispensation to the Covenanters. Heb: 9. 15, 16, 17. and what he hath farther done for the Assuring of his Saints abiding with God, shall afterward be declared.
2. Seeing that God and man, having been at so great a distance, as they were by sinne, must needs meet in some Mediatour, some middle person in whom, and by whose bloud, (as covenants usually were confirmed ⟨p. 100⟩by bloud) this Covenant must be ratified; consider who this is, and what he hath done for the establishing of it. There is one God, and one Mediator between God and Man, the Man Christ Jesus. 1 Tim. 2.5. He is the surety of this Testament. Heb. 7. 22. The Mediator of this better Covenant, established upon better Promises Heb: 8. 6. neither is this surety or Mediator subject to change. He is the same yesterday, to day, and for ever.