A53688:657
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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The nature of the Faithfulness of God expressed in the foregoing places, inquired into: perverted by M. G. His notion of the Faithfulness of God, weighed and rejected: what intended in the Scriptures by the Faithfulness of God: The close of the confirmation of the proposition of the Argument proposed from the Promises of God. 15. The assumption thereof vindicated: The sense put upon it by M. G. The Question begged.
The nature of the Faithfulnesse of God expressed in the foregoing places, inquired into: perverted by M. G. His notion of the Faithfulnesse of God, weighed and rejected: what intended in the Scriptures by the Faithfulnesse of God: The close of the confirmation of the proposition of the Argument proposed from the Promises of God. 15. The assumption thereof vindicated: The sence put upon it by M. G. The Question begged.
The consideration of the Promises of God, 1which are all branches of the forementioned Root, all streaming from the fountain of the Covenant of Grace, is, according to the method proposed, in the next place incumbent on us. The Argument for the Truth under contest, which from hence is afforded, and used, is by Mr Goodwin termed the first-borne of our strength, cap. 11. Sect. 1. pag. 225. and indeed we are content, that it may be so accounted, desiring nothing more ancient, nothing more strong, effectual, and powerful to stay our souls upon, then the Promises of that God,2 who cannot lye. I shall for the present insist only on those, which peculiarly assert, and in the name and Authority of God, confirm that part of the Truth, we are peculiarly in Demonstration of; namely the Unchangeable stability of the Love and Favour of God to Believers, in regard whereof he turneth not from them, nor forsaketh them, upon the Account of any such Interveniences what ever, as he will suffer to be interposed in their communion with him; leaving those, wherein he gives Assurance upon Assurance, that he will give out unto them such continual supplies of his Spirit ⟨p. 112⟩