A53688:605
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. That this solemn Renovation of this promise of the Covenant, was (not made to them when in Babylon, but) given out to them before hand, to sustain their hearts and spirits withal, in their Bondage and Thraldom, is granted; and what then I pray? Is it any new thing to have spiritual Promises solemnly given out, & renewed upon the occasion of temporal distresses? A Promise of Christ is given out to the House of David, when in fear of being destroyed, Isaiah 7. 13. So it was given to Adam Gen: 3.16. So to Abraham, Gen. 17. So to the Church; Isaiah 4. 2, 3, 4. But farther it is said,
Ans. That this solemne Renovation of this promise of the Covenant, was (not made to them when in Babylon, but) given out to them before hand, to sustaine their hearts and spirits withall, in their Bondage and Thraldome, is granted; and what then I pray? Is it any new thing to have spirituall Promises solemnly given out, & renewed upon the occasion of temporall distresses? A Promise of Christ is given out to the House of David, when in feare of being destroyed, Isaiah 7. 13. So it was given to Adam Gen: 3.16. So to Abraham, Gen. 17. So to the Church; Isaiah 4. 2, 3, 4. But farther it is said,
4. From the words immediately preceding the passages offered to debate, it clearly appears, that the Promise in these passages relates unto, and concerns their ⟨p. 102⟩reduction, and return from, and out of that Captivity, into their own Land.