A53688:709
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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It is such a kind of Faithfulness, or disposition in him, as that meant by Peter, when he stileth him a faithful Creator: Now God is, and may properly be termed a faithful Creator, because he constantly performs unto his Creature, whatsoever the Relation of a Creator promiseth in an equitable and rational way unto it, which is a great care and tenderness for the preservation and well-being of it: in like manner he may, yea it is most likely that he is, called faithful in his calling of men, as he is a spiritual Father or Creator, a giver of a new being unto men, because he never faileth to perform unto those new creatures of his, whatsoever such a being as this regularly interpreted, promiseth unto him, who receiveth it from him who is the donor of it: (that is) convenient and sufficient means for the preservation, and well-being of it. So that the Faithfulness of God in the Scriptures in hand, supposes no such Promise made by God, as our opposers imagine. viz. Whereby he should in terms, or words stand engaged to establish, confirm, or keep Believers from evil, his new creatures, his regenerated ones, after any such a manner, but that they, if they be careless or negligent for themselves, may be shaken and decline, and commit evil notwithstanding.
It is such a kind of Faithfulnesse, or disposition in him, as that meant by Peter, when he stileth him a faithfull Creator: Now God is, and may properly be termed a faithfull Creator, because he constantly per•ormes unto his Creature, whatsoever the Relation of a Creator promiseth in an equitable and rationall way unto it, which is a great care and tendernesse for the preservation and well-being of it: in like manner he may, yea it is most likely that he is, called faithfull in his calling of men, as he is a spirituall Father or Creator, a giver of a new being unto men, because he never faileth to performe unto those new creatures of his, whatsoever such a being as this regularly interpreted, promiseth unto him, who receiveth it from him who is the donor of it: (that is) convement and sufficient meanes for the preservation, and well-being of it. So that the Faithfulnesse of God in the Scriptures in hand, supposes no such Promise made by God, as our opposers imagine. viz. Whereby he should in termes, or words stand engaged to establish, confirme, or keep Believers from evill, his new creatures, his regenerated ones, after any such a manner, but that they, if they be carelesse or negligent for themselves, may be shaken and decline, and commit evill notwithstanding.