A53688:668
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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5. That they are discoveries of Gods good will, in a Covenant of Grace: they are indeed the Branches, Streams, and manifesting conveyances of the Grace of that Covenant, and of the Good Will of God, putting it self forth therein. Hence the Apostle mentions the Covenant of Promise. Ephes: 2. 12. either for the Promises of the Covenant, or its manifestation, as I said before Indeed as to the Subject-Matter and eminently, the Promise is but one, as the Covenant is no more; but both come under a plural Expression, because they have been variously delivered, and renewed upon several occasions So the Covenant of Grace, is said to be established upon these Promises: Heb: 8. 6. that is, the Grace and Mercy of the Covenant, and the usefulness of it to the Ends of a Covenant, to keep God and man together in Peace and Agreement, is laid upon these Promises, to be by them confirmed and established unto us: God having by them revealed his Good Will unto us, with an attendance of stipulation of duty. Their use, for the begetting and continuing Communion between God and us, with the concomitancy of precepts, places them in the capacity of a Covenant.
5. That they are discoveries of Gods good will, in a Covenant of Grace: they are indeed the Branches, Streames, and manifesting conveyances of the Grace of that Covenant, and of the Good Will of God, putting it selfe forth therein. Hence the Apostle mentions the Covenant of Promise. Ephes: 2. 12. either for the Promises of the Covenant, or its manifestation, as I said before Indeed as to the Subject-Matter and eminently, the Promise is but one, as the Covenant is no more; but both come under a plurall Expression, because they have been variously delivered, and renewed upon severall occasions So the Covenant of Grace, is said to be established upon these Promises: Heb: 8. 6. that is, the Grace and Mercy of the Covenant, and the usefulnesse of it to the Ends of a Covenant, to keep God and man together in Peace and Agreement, is laid upon these Promises, to be by them confirmed and established unto us: God having by them revealed his Good Will unto us, with an attendency of stipulation of duty. Their use, for the begetting and continuing Communion betweene God and us, with the concomitancy of precepts, places them in the capacity of a Covenant.