A53688:723
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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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.
1 Sam. 12. 22. The truth we have under consideration is confirmed by the Prophet in the name & Authority of God himselfe,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.
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The expression is the same with that, which the Lord gives his People of his good will in the Covenant of Grace,1 of which I have spoken before. Many may be their Calamities, and Afflictions, many their Trials and Temptations, many their Desertions, and Darknesses, but God will not forsake them, he will not utterly cast them off for ever. That his People are his People in Covenant, his secret ones, his Spiritual Church, the remnant according to the Election Grace, hath been before declared in the handling of like places of Scripture. It is to vindicate this and the like Promises from all surmises of failing and coming short of Accomplishment, that the Apostle saith, God hath not cast away his People which he did fore-know.