A53688:655
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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CAP. V.
1. Entrance into the Argument from the Promises of God, with their stability, and his Faithfulness in them. 2. The usual Exceptions to this Argument. 3. A general description of Gospel-Promises. 4. Why, and on what account called Gospel-Promises: The description given, general; not suited to any single Promise. 5. They are free: and that they are so, proved, all flowing from the first great Promise of giving a Redeemer. 6. How they are discoveries of Gods goodwill: How made to Sinners: consequential Promises made also to Believers. 7. Given in, and through Christ: in a Covenant of Grace. Their certainty upon the Account of the engagement of the Truth and Faithfulness of God in them: of the main matter of these promises, Christ and the Spirit. 8. Of particular Promises, all flowing from the same Love and Grace. 9. Observations of the Promises of God, subservient to the End intended: (1.) They are all true and faithful: the ground of the Assertion: (2.) Their accomplishment always certain, not always evident: (3.) All conditional Promises made good: and how. 10. (4.) The Promise of Perseverance of two sorts: (5.) All Promises of our abiding with God in Faith and Obedience, absolute: The vanity of imposing conditions on them, discovered: (6.) Promises of Gods abiding with us, not to be separated from Promises of our abiding with him: (7.) That they do not properly depend on any condition in Believers, demonstrated: instances of this Assertion given: (8) (Making them conditional renders them void, as to the Ends, for which they are given:) given to persons, not Qualifications: 11. The Argument from the Promises of God, stated. 12. Mr G's Exceptions against the First Proposition cleared, and his Objections Answered: The Promises of God always fulfilled: Of the Promise made to Paul Acts 27. 24. &c. Good men make good their Promises to the utmost of their abilities. The Promise made to Paul absolute, and of infallible accomplishment. Of the promise of our Saviour to his Disciples Mat. 19. 28. Who intended in that Promise: not Judas: the accomplishment of the Promise: The Testimony of Peter Martyr Considered: The conclusion of the forementioned Objection. 13. The engagement of the Faithfulness of God for the accomplishment of his Promise: