A53688:670
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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6. I mentioned the foundation of the Certainty and Unchangeableness of these Promises, with our Assurance of their Accomplishment. The Engagements, and Undertakings of God; upon his Truth and Faithfulness, is the stock, and unmoveable foundation of this respect of them. Therefore speaking of them, the Holy Ghost often backs them with that Property of God: He cannot lye, so Heb: 6. 17. 18. God willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of Promise, the immutability of his Counsel, confirmed it by an Oath, that by two immutable things, wherein it was not possible for God to lye &c. So Tit: 1. 2. God, which cannot lye, hath promised us eternal life. There is no one makes a solemn Promise, but as it ought to proceed from him in sincerity and Truth, so he engageth his Truth and Faithfulness, in all the credit of them, for the Accomplishment thereof, what lieth in him. And on this account, doth David so often appeal unto,1 and call upon the Righteousness of God, as to the fulfilling of his Promises,2 and the word, which he caused him to put his trust in. It is because of his engagement of his Truth and Faithfulness, whence it becometh a righteous thing with him, to perform what he hath spoken. How far this Respect of the Promises extends, and wherein it is capable of a dispensation, is the sum of our present Controversy: but of this afterwards. Then,
6. I mentioned the foundation of the Certainty and Vnchangeablenesse of these Promises, with our Assurance of their Accomplishment. The Engagements, and Undertakings of God; upon his Truth and Faithfulnesse, is the stock, and unmoveable foundation of this respect of them. Therefore speaking of them, the Holy Ghost often backs them with that Property of God: He cannot lye, so Heb: 6. 17. 18. God willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of Promise, the immutability of his Councell, confirmed it by an Oath, that by two immutable things, wherein it was not possible for God to lye &c. So Tit: 1. 2. God, which cannot lye, hath promised us eternall life. There is no one makes a solemne Promise, but as it ought to proceed from him in sincerity and Truth, so he engageth his Truth and Faithfulnesse, in all the credit of them, for the Accomplishment thereof, what lyeth in him. And on this account, doth David so often appeale unto,1