A53688:764
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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3. That this and the like Promises are to be interpreted according to the rule which God hath given for the interpretation and understanding of his threatenings unto Nations about temporal things, and his Promises that are of the same import; which we have Jer. 18. 7, 8. Plainly affirming that all their accomplishment dependeth on some conditions in the Persons, or Nations, against whom they are denounced.
3. That this and the like Promises are to be interpreted according to the rule which God hath given for the interpretation and understanding of his threatnings unto Nations about temporall things, and his Promises that are of the same import; which we have Jer. 18. 7, 8. Plainely affirming that all their accomplishment dependeth on some conditions in the Persons, or Nations, against whom they are denounced.
Ans. God forbid! shall those Promises which are branches of the everlasting Covenant of Grace,1 called better Promises then those of the old Covenant upon the account of their infallible accomplishment,2 ratified in the blood of Christ, made yea and amen in him the witness of the Faithfulness of God to his Church,3 and grand Supporter of our Faith, exceeding great and precious; shall they be thought to be of no other sense and interpretation, to make no other Revelation of the Father unto us, but in that kind, which is common to threatenings of Judgements (expressly conditional) for the deterring men from their impious and destructive courses? I say, God forbid. To put it then to an issue. God here promiseth that they who here trust in him shall never be removed. What (I pray) is the Condition, on which this Promise doth depend? It is say they who oppose us in this, if they continue trusting in him: that is, if they be not removed; for to trust in him, is, not to be removed; if then they be not removed, they shall not be removed; and is this the mind of the Holy Ghost? Notwithstanding all the Rhetoric in the world, this Promise will stand for the consolation of them that believe, as the Mountains about Jerusalem that shall never be removed.