A53688:631
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.
Ans. 1. Temporal things in the Promises are often expressed only to be a resemblance, and to set off some eminent Spiritual Grace intended, as shall afterwards appear. In that sense the Promises mentioning such things, are actually and fully accomplished in the collation of the Spiritual things by them typed and resembled. 2. Temporal Promises as such, belong not primarily to the Covenant of Grace, as they are of Temporal things for the substance of them but to the Covenant with that whole Nation, about their inheritance in the Land of Canaan, which was expressly conditional, and which held out no more of Gods Intendment to that Nation, but only that there should be an inviolable connection between their Obedience & Prosperities. 3. The things in this Promise are expressly differenced from the things of that Covenant, on this account, that that Covenant being broken on the part of the Nation, they enjoyed not that which was laid out as a fruit of their Obedience; but this shall never be violated or broken, God undertaking for the accomplishing of it, with another manner of engaging, and suitable power exerted, then in that of old. Heb: 8. 7, 8, 9, 10. Cap. 10. 16, 17. But saith he,
Ans. 1. Temporall things in the Promises are often expressed only to be a resemblance, and to set off some eminent Spirituall Grace intended, as shall afterwards appeare. In that sense the Promises mentioning such things, are actually and fully accomplished in the collation of the Spirituall things by them typed and resembled. 2. Temporall Promises as such, belong not primarily to the Covenant of Grace, as they are of Temporall things for the substance of them but to the Covenant with that whole Nation, about their inheritance in the Land of Canaan, which was expressely conditionall, and which held out no more of Gods Intendment to that Nation, but only that there should be an inviolable connexion between their Obedience & Prosperityes. 3. The things in this Promise are expresly differenced from the things of that Covenant, on this account, that that Covenant being broken on the part of the Nation, they enjoyed not that which was laid out as a fruit of their Obedience; but this shall never be violated or broken, God undertaking for the accomplishing of it, with another manner of engaging, and sutable power exerted, then in that of old. Heb: 8. 7, 8, 9, 10. Cap. 10. 16, 17. But saith he,