A53688:683
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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Now if one man should promise another, that he should at such a time and place be supplied with an hundred pounds to pay his Debts, on condition that he came and brought the Monies himself, ought he to be esteemed to have a mind to relieve the poor man, or to mock him? To affirm, that, when God promiseth to write his Law in our Hearts, to put his Fear in our inward parts, to Create in us a New Heart, to circumcise our Hearts that we may fear him always, to give us his Spirit to abide with us for ever, to preserve us by his Power, so that we shall never leave him nor forsake him, shall live to him, and sin shall not have dominion over us &c. he doth it upon condition, that we write his Law in our hearts, Circumcise them, continue to fear Him, abide with Him, not forsake him, &c. is to make him to mock and deride at their misery, whose relief he so seriously pretendeth. What ever Promises then of this kind (Promises of working Obedience in us, for our abiding with him) shall be produced, they will be found to be Absolute, & independent on any condition whatever, & their Truth no ways to be maintained, but in and by their Accomplishment.
Now if one man should promise another, that he should at such a time and place be supplyed with an hundred pounds to pay his Debts, on condition that he came and brought the Monies himselfe, ought he to be esteemed to have a mind to relieve the poore man, or to mock him? To affirme, that, when God promiseth to write his Law in our Hearts, to put his Feare in our inward parts, to Create in us a New Heart, to circumcise our Hearts that we may feare him alwaies, to give us his Spirit to abide with us for ever, to preserve us by his Power, so that we shall never leave him nor forsake him, shall live to him, and sinne shall not have dominion over us &c. he doth it upon condition, that we write his Law in our hearts, Circumcise them, continue to feare Him, abide with Him, not forsake him, &c. is to make him to mock and deride at their misery, whose reliefe he so seriously pretendeth. What ever Promises then of this kind (Promises of working Obedience in us, for our abiding with him) shall be produced, they will be found to be Absolute, & independent on any condition whatever, & their Truth no waies to be maintained, but in and by their Accomplishment.