A53688:642
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. Conversion, and Pardon of Sin being both in this promise of the Covenant (I take in also that place of the same importance cap. 31.) and relating alike to the Grace of God, if Conversion, or the giving of a new heart, be done only by administering outward means, and persuasions unto men to make the new heatrs; the forgiveness of Sins must also be supposed to be tendered unto them upon the condition, that their sins be forgiven; as Conversion is, on condition they be converted, or do convert themselves.
2. Conversion, and Pardon of Sinne being both in this promise of the Covenant (I take in also that place of the same importance cap. 31.) and relating alike to the Grace of God, if Conversion, or the giving of a new heart, be done only by administring outward meanes, and perswasions unto men to make the new heatrs; the forgivenesse of Sins must also be supposed to be tendred unto them upon the condition, that their sinnes be forgiven; as Conversion is, on condition they be converted, or doe convert themselves.
3. This Promise being by the Prophet and Apostle insisted on, as containing the Grace, whereby eminently and peculiarly the New Covenant is distinguished from that which was abolished; If the Grace mentioned therein, be only the laying a powerful and strong obligation on men to duty, and obedience ⟨p. 108⟩upon the account of the gracious, and bountiful dealing of God with them, both as to their Temporal and Spiritual condition, I desire to know wherein the difference of it from the old Covenant, as to the collation of Grace, doth consist? And whether ever God made a Covenant with man, wherein he did not put sufficient obligations of this kind upon him, unto obedience? And if so, what are the better promises of the New Covenant? And what eminent and singular things, as to the bestowing of Grace, are in it? Which things here are emphatically expressed to the uttermost.
3. This Promise being by the Prophet and Apostle insisted on, as containing the Grace, whereby eminently and peculiarly the New Covenant is distinguished from that which was abolished; If the Grace mentioned therein, be only the laying a powerfull and strong obligation on men to duty, and obedience