A53688:754
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. A Promise of Gods everlasting presence with his Saints, Believers, them that trust in him; and their steadfastness thereupon, they shall be as mount Zion that can never be removed, and that, because the Lord is round about them, and that for ever.
1. A Promise of Gods everlasting presence with his Saints, Believers, them that trust in him; and their stedfastnesse thereupon, they shall be as mount Sion that can never be removed, and that, because the Lord is round about them, and that for ever.
2. An allusive comparison of both these, both their stability, and Gods presence with them, given for the encouragement of weak Believers, with special regard to the days wherein the Promise was first made, which actually also belongs to them, on whom the ends of the World are fallen. The Psalmist bids them (as it were) lift up their eyes, and look upon mount Zion, and the hills that were round about Jerusalem, and tells them that God will as certainly, and assuredly continue with them, and give them establishment, as those hills and mountains which they beheld round about, abide in their places: so that it shall be as impossible for all the powers of Hell to remove them out of the Favour of God, as for a man to pluck up mount Zion by the roots, or to overturn the foundations of the Mountains, that stand round about Jerusalem. It is true, the Holy Ghost hath special regard to the oppositions and Temptations that they were to undergo from men, but bears also an equal regard to all other means of separating them from their God; It would be a matter of small consolation unto them, that men should not prevail ⟨p. 139⟩over them for ever, if in the mean time there be other more close and powerful Adversaries, who may cast them down with a perpetual destruction. Some few considerations of the intendment of the place, will serve for the enforcing of our Argument from this portion of Scripture.
2. An allusive comparison of both these, both their stability, and Gods presence with them, given for the encouragement of weake Believers, with speciall regard to the dayes wherein the Promise was first made, which actually also belongs to them, on whom the ends of the World are fallen. The Psalmist bids them (as it were) lift up their eyes, and look upon mount Sion, and the hills that were round about Jerusalem, and tells them that God will as certainly, and assuredly continue with them, and give them establishment, as those hills and mountaines which they beheld round about, abide in their places: so that it shall be as impossible for all the powers of Hell to remove them out of the Favour of God, as for a man to pluck up mount Sion by the rootes, or to overturne the foundations of the Mountaines, that stand round about Jerusalem. It is true, the Holy Ghost hath speciall regard to the oppositions and Temptations that they were to undergoe from men, but bears also an equall regard to all other meanes of separating them from their God; It would be a matter of small consolation unto them, that men should not prevaile