A53688:749
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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The Lord knows we are oftentimes weak, and dark, & at no small loss even as to the main of our interest in the Promises of God: But there being an equal certainty in the things themselves, of which we speak, it being as certain that the Goodness and Mercy of God shall follow them all their days, as it did David, and as certain that God will deliver them from every evil work, and preserve them to his Heavenly kingdom as he did Paul, they also may grow up unto, and ought to press after the like Assurance and Consolation With them, whom Goodness and Mercy shall follow all their days, and who shall be of God preserved from every evil work, they can never fall totally and finally out of the Favour of God: That this is the state and Condition of Believers is manifested from the Instances given of David, and Paul, testifying their full persuasion and assurance concerning that Condition, on Grounds common to them with all Believers.
The Lord knowes we are oftentimes weake, and darke, & at no small losse even as to the main of our interest in the Promises of God: But there being an equall certainty in the things themselves, of which we speake, it being as certaine that the Goodnesse and Mercy of God shall follow them all their dayes, as it did David, and as certaine that God will deliver them from every evill worke, and preserve them to his Heavenly kingdome as he did Panl, they also may grow up unto, and ought to presse after the like Assurance and Consolation With them, whom Goodnesse and Mercy shall follow all their dayes, and who shall be of God preserved from every evill worke, they can never fall totally and finally out of the Favour of God: That this is the state and Condition of Believers is manifested from the Instances given of David, and Paul, testifying their full perswasion and assurance concerning that Condition, on Grounds common to them with all Believers.
2. The conclusion and inference that the Psalmist makes,1 from the Assurance which he had of the Continuance of the Goodness, and Kindness of God unto him, followeth in the words insisted on, All the days of his life, he would dwell in his House. He would for ever give up himself unto his Worship and service, seeing this is the case of my Soul that God will never forsake me, let me answer this Love of God in my constant obedience. Now this conclusion follows from the former principle upon a twofold account.