A53688:712
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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CAP. VI.
1. The former Argument confirmed by an induction of particular instances: Joh: 1. 5. opened. The concernment of all Believers in that Promise, proved by the Apostle. Heb: 13. 5. The general interest of all Believers in all the Promises of God cleared. Objections answered. How Old Testament Promises may be improved. 2. The Promise insisted on relates principally to Spirituals. The strength of it to the end intended. 3. 1 Sam. 12. 22. To whom the Promise there is given. 4. The twofold use of this Promise: Threats to wicked men of use to the Saints: Promises to the Saints, of use to wicked men. Isa. 4. 2, 3, 4. Psal. 89. 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37. opened. A condition of back-sliding supposed in Believers: yet they not rejected: Gods abiding with his Saints, upon the account of his (1.) Faithfulness, (2.) Loving-kindness. (3.) Covenant: (4.) Promise, (5.) Oath. 5. The intendment of the words insisted on, from 1 Sam: 12. 22. Isa. 27. 2, 3, 4. Zeph. 3, 17. illustrated. The intendment of those words, I will not forsake thee. The reason of the Promise, and means promised therein: no cause in them, to whom the Promise is made. Ezek. 36. 31. Isa. 43. 22, 23, 24, 25. opened, also Isa. 57. 17. 6. The cause in God himself only. The Name of God what it imports: his All-sufficiency engaged therein, and his Goodness. 7. The Rise and fountain of all Gods Goodness to his people, in his own good pleasure: The sum of our Argument from this place of Scripture. 8. Psl. 23. 4, 5. opened: the Psalmists use of assurance of Perseverance. 9. Inferences from the last use: 2 Tim: 4. 18. opened: all Believers in the same condition, as to Perseverance, with David and Paul. 10. The Second inference from the place insisted on. Assurance a motive to obedience, and is the end that God intends to promote thereby. 11. Psal: 125. 12. explained. Psal: 37. 28. Deut: 33. 3. 12. Inferences from that place of the Psalmist: perpetual preservation in the condition of Saints promised to Believers. 13. Mr G. Objections and Exceptions to our Exposition and Argument from this place, removed. 14. Promises made originally to persons, not Qualifications: not the same Reason of Promises to the Church, and of threatenings to sinners. 15. Other objections removed. 16.