A53688:761
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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to be necessitated unto this Act, and in the performance of it, so that it should be done necessarily as to the manner of its doing, is wholly destructive to the nature and being of it. That God can effectually, and infallibly as to the event, cause his Saints to continue trusting in him, without the least abridgement of their liberty, yea that he doth so eminently by heightening and advancing their spiritual liberty, shall be afterwards declared: if by necessitated to continue trusting, not the manner of Gods operation with, and in them, for the compassing of the end proposed, and the efficacy of his Grace, whereby he doth it (commonly decried under those terms) be intended; but only the certainty of the issue, rejecting the impropriety of the expression, the thing it self we affirm to be here promised of God. But is urged,
to be necessitated unto this Act, and in the performance of it, so that it should be done necessarily as to the manner of its doing, is wholly destructive to the nature and being of it. That God can effectually, and infallibly as to the event, cause his Saints to continue trusting in him, without the least abridgement of their liberty, yea that he doth so eminently by heightning and advancing their spirituall liberty, shall be afterwards declared: if by necessitated to continue trusting, not the manner of Gods operation with, and in them, for the compassing of the end poposed, and the efficacy of his Grace, whereby he doth it (commonly decryed under those termes) be intended; but only the certainty of the issue, rejecting the impropriety of the expression, the thing it selfe we affirme to be here promised of God. But is urged,
2. That this Promise is not made unto the Persons of any,1 but merely unto their Qualifications: like that, he that believeth shall be saved, it is made to the Grace of Trusting, Obedience, and walking with God, for threatenings are made to the evil Qualifications of men.
2. That this Promise is not made unto the Persons of any,1