A53688:673
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. That we may be kept and preserved meet for communion with him, as our God, and for the enjoyment of him, as our Reward. For this End, flows forth the other great Stream from the former Fountain, namely, the Promise of the Holy Spirit, which he gives us, to make us meet for the inheritance with the Saints in Light, 1to put forth and exercise towards us, all the Acts of his Love, which are needful for us, and to work in us the Obedience, which he requires, and accepts of us in Jesus Christ, so preserving us for himself. This Promise of the Spirit in the Covenant,2 with his work and peculiar dispensations, 3is plentifully witnessed in very many places of the Old Testament, and New;4 some whereof must afterwards be insisted on: Hence he is sometimes called the Promise of the Covenant, 5Acts 2. 59. The Promise is to you; which Promise is that which Christ receiveth from his Father v: 33. even the Promise of the Holy Ghost. I shall only add, that though this be a great Stream, flowing from the first Fountain, yet it comes not immediately thence, but issues out from the Stream before mentioned, the Promise of the Lord Jesus Christ; for he is given by him unto us,6 as procured for us, and given only unto his.
2. That we may be kept and preserved meet for communion with him, as our God, and for the enjoyment of him, as our Reward. For this End, flows forth the other great Streame from the former Fountaine, namely, the Promise of the Holy Spirit, which he gives us, to make us meet for the inheritance with the Saints in Light, 1to put forth and exercise towards us, all the Acts of his Love, which are needfull for us, and to worke in us the Obedience, which he requires, and accepts of us in Jesus Christ, so preserving us for himselfe. This Promise of the Spirit in the Covenant,