A53688:746
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.
There are then these two things in this last verse,1 pregnant to the purpose in hand.
- 1§. 9.
1. The Psalmist's assurance of the presence of God with him for ever, and that in kindness and pardoning Mercy, upon the account of his Promise unto him; Goodness or benignity (saith he) shall follow me, into every Condition, to assist me, & extricate my Soul, even out of the valley of the shadow of death. A conclusion like that of Paul. 2 Tim. 4. 18. The Lord shall deliver me from every evil wor•, and will preserve me unto his Heavenly Kingdom. Having (v. 17.) given testimony of the Presence of God with him in his great trial, when he was brought before that devouring monster Nero, giving him deliverance, he manifesteth in the 18. v. that the Presence of God with him was not only effectual for one or an other deliverance, but that it will keep him from every evil work, not only from the rashness, cruelty, and oppression of others, but also from any such way or works of his own, which should lay a bar against his enjoyments of, and complete preservation unto that Heavenly Kingdom, whereunto he was appointed.
1. The Psalmist's assurance of the presence of God with him for ever, and that in kindnesse and pardoning Mercy, upon the account of his Promise unto him; Goodnesse or benignity (saith he) shall follow me, into every Condition, to assist me, & extricate my Soule, even out of the vally of the shadow of death. A conclusion like that of Paul. 2 Tim. 4. 18. The Lord shall deliver me from every evill wor•, and will preserve me unto his Heavenly Kingdome. Having (v. 17.) given testimony of the Presence of God with him in his great tryall, when he was brought before that devouring monster Nero, giving him deliverance, he manifesteth in the 18. v. that the Presence of God with him was not only effectuall for one or an other deliverance, but that it will keepe him from every evill worke, not only from the rashnesse, cruelty, and oppression of others, but also from any such way or workes of his owne, which should lay a barre against his injoyments of, and compleat preservation unto that Heavenly Kingdome, whereunto he was appointed.