A53688:707
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. The Faithfulness of God is not mentioned as that Divine principle, out of which he is moved to establish and confirm Believers to the end, but only to confirm them in the faith of his Unchangeableness and Constancy, in the accomplishing the work of his free Grace, which he had begun in them, and promised to confirm to the end. The work flows from the Principle of his free Grace in Jesus Christ, whence alone, he gives them great, free, and precious Promises. His stability and Constancy in those Promises, as to their performance, is intended by his Faithfulness and Truth in them. What are the Promises of God improperly so called, and not exhibited in words, which you intimate, I know not.
2. The Faithfulnesse of God is not mentioned as that Divine principle, out of which he is moved to establish and confirme Believers to the end, but only to confirme them in the faith of his Unchangeablenesse and Constancie, in the accomplishing the worke of his free Grace, which he had begun in them, and promised to confirme to the end. The work flowes from the Principle of his free Grace in Jesus Christ, whence alone, he gives them great, free, and pretious Promises. His stability and Constancie in those Promises, as to their performance, is intended by his Faithfulnesse and Truth in them. What are the Promises of God improperly so called, and not exhibited in words, which you intimate, I know not.
3. The Apostle doth not only suppose, but in the name, and Authority of God, gives actually in the places under consideration, Promises of the certain and infallible preservation of Believers to the end, asserting the immutability of Gods engagement in them from his Faithfulness. In brief: not to darken counsel and understanding with a multitude of words; by the Promises of God, we intend in a peculiar manner, those expressed in the Texts under consideration. viz. That God will establish Believers to the end, keep them from evil, and all Temptations, that would overthrow them: and by the Faithfulness of God, from whence Believers have their Assurance of the accomplishment of these promises, that which the Scripture holds out, and all the World of Believers have hither to taken to be, the Faithfulness of God, as was before described. But it seems the word is here used otherwise. For (saith he.)