A53688:722
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 will be excepted, that God will not forsake them, whilst they are Believers; but if they forsake him, and fall from him, he is at liberty to renounce them also. But that Gods not forsaking of any, is no more but a meer non-rejection of them, shall afterwards be disproved. Whom he doth not forsake as a God in Covenant, to them doth he continue his Presence, and towards them exerciseth his Power and All-sufficiency for their Good. And if he can by his Spirit and the Power of his Grace keep them whom he doth not forsake, in a state and Condition of not-forsaking him, he doth forsake them, before they forsake him, yea before he is said to forsake them. Gods not forsaking Believers, is effectually preventive of that state and condition in them, on ⟨p. 131⟩the account whereof it is asserted that he may forsake them.
It will be excepted, that God will not forsake them, whilst they are Believers; but if they forsake him, and fall from him, he is at liberty to renounce them also. But that Gods not forsaking of any, is no more but a meer non-rejection of them, shall afterwards be disprooved. Whom he doth not forsake as a God in Covenant, to them doth he continue his Presence, and towards them exerciseth his Power and Allsufficiency for their Good. And if he can by his Spirit and the Power of his Grace keep them whom he doth not forsake, in a state and Condition of not-forsaking him, he doth forsake them, before they forsake him, yea before he is said to forsake them. Gods not forsaking Believers, is effectually preventive of that state and condition in them, on ⟨p. 131⟩the account whereof it is asserted that he may forsake them.
1 Sam. 12. 22. The truth we have under consideration is confirmed by the Prophet in the name & Authority of God himself,1 and the words wherein it is done, have the force of a Promise, being declarative of the good will of God unto his people in Christ: For the Lord will not forsake his People for his great Name sake, because it pleased the Lord to make them his People.