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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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A supposal is made of such ways and walkings in the spiritual seed and offspring of the Lord Christ, (which in the Psalm is typed out by David) that the Lord will be as it were compelled to deal sharply with them, for their ⟨p. 132⟩iniquities and transgressions: yet his kindness, that shall abide with Christ, in reference to the preservation of his seed; his Faithfulness, that shall not fail, his Covenant, and his Oath shall be made good to the uttermost.
A supposall is made of such waies and walkings in the spirituall seed and ofspring of the Lord Christ, (which in the Psalme is typed out by David) that the Lord will be as it were compelled to deale sharply with them, for their ⟨p. 132⟩iniquities and transgressions: yet his kindnesse, that shall abide with Christ, in reference to the preservation of his seed; his Faithfulnesse, that shall not faile, his Covenant, and his Oath shall be made good to the uttermost.
It is supposed, which is the worst that can be supposed, that in some degree, at least for some season, they may forsake the Law, not keep the Commandments, and profane the Statutes of God, which continues the burden of poor Believers to this day: yet the worst that the Lord threatens them on this account, when they might have expected, that he would have utterly cast off such unthankful, unfruitful backsliders, poor creatures, is but this, I will visit them with a rod, and with stripes; they shall have what ever comes within the compass of correction or affliction: Rod and Stripes shall be on them, and that whether outward correction, or inward desertion. but will the Lord proceed no farther Will he not for ever cast them off, and ease himself of such a provoking Generation? No, saith the Lord: there lye five things in the way, upon whose account I cannot so deal with them. All regard the same persons, as is evident from the Antithesis that is in the discourse.
It is supposed, which is the worst that can be supposed, that in some degree, at least for some season, they may forsake the Law, not keep the Commandements, and prophane the Statutes of God, which continues the burthen of poore Believers to this day: yet the worst that the Lord threatens them on this account, when they might have expected, that he would have utterly cast off such unthankfull, unfruitfull backsliders, poore creatures, is but this, I will visit them with a rod, and with stripes; they shall have what ever comes within the compasse of correction or affliction: Rod and Stripes shall be on them, and that whether outward correction, or inward desertion. but will the Lord proceed no farther Will he not for ever cast them off, and ease himselfe of such a provoking Generation? No, saith the Lord: there lye five things in the way, upon whose account I cannot so deale with them. All regard the same persons, as is evident from the Antithesis that is in the discourse.