A53688:741
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. His Power or sufficiency: Upon the engagement of the Name of God on his peoples behalf, Moses carefully pleads this latter, or part thereof. Num: 14. 17, 18, 19. God hath given his Name unto his people: and this is wrapped up in that mercy, that he will lay out his Power to pardon, heal, and do them good in his preserving of them, and abiding with them: Let thy Power be great, according as thou hast spoken, the Lord is long suffering: and as when he works for his name, the way whereby he will do it, is according to the greatness of his Power; so the fountain and rise, from whence he will do it, is,
1. His Power or sufficiency: Upon the engagement of the Name of God on his peoples behalfe, Moses carefully pleads this latter, or part thereof. Num: 14. 17, 18, 19. God hath given his Name unto his people: and this is wrapt up in that mercy, that he will lay out his Power to pardon, heale, and doe them good in his preserving of them, and abiding with them: Let thy Power be great, according as thou hast spoken, the Lord is long suffering: and as when he workes for his name, the way whereby he will doe it, is according to the greatnesse of his Power; so the fountaine and rise, from whence he will doe it, is,
2. His Goodness,1 Kindness, Love, Patience, Mercy, Grace, Faithfulness in Jesus Christ.2 And thus under the title of his Name, doth he call poor afflicted,3 dark, hopeless, helpless Creatures, (upon any other account in the World) persons ready to be swallowed up in disconsolation and sorrow,4 to rest upon him. Isa: 50. 10. Who is among you that feareth the Lord, and obeyeth ⟨p. 135⟩the voice of his Servant, that walketh in darkness and hath no light, let him trust in the name of the Lord and stay upon his God. When all other holds are gone, when flesh fails, and heart fails, then doth God call poor souls to rest upon this Name of his. So the Psalmist Psal: 73. 26. My flesh, and my heart faileth, (all strength, natural and spiritual, faileth and is gone) but God is the strength of my heart (saith he) and my portion for ever. Now this is the sole motive also of Gods continuance with his: He will do it, because he himself is good, gracious, merciful, loving, tender: and he will lay out these Properties to the utmost in their behalf, that it may be well with them, lifting up, exalting, and making himself Gracious in so doing. This the Lord emphatically expresseth five times in one verse,