A53688:772
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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Ans. First, the Promises of God, and the affections of men are but ill compared. 2. Paul loved the Corinthians, whilst they were such as he mentioned; God promiseth his Grace to Believers, that they may continue such as he loves.
Ob. All the Promises are made to Qualifications, not to Persons.
Ans. Prove that, and 1. Take the case in hand; and 2. Cast down the Church to the ground, it having no one Promise on that account made unto it, as consisting of Abraham's Seed: and so this witness also is freed from all exceptions put in against it, and appears with confidence to give in its Testimony to the Unchangeableness of God unto Believers.
Ans. Prove that, and 1. Take the case in hand; and 2. Cast downe the Church to the ground, it having no one Promise on that account made unto it, as consisting of Abrahams Seed: and so this witnesse also is freed from all exceptions put in against it, and appeares with confidence to give in its Testimony to the Vnchangeablenesse of God unto Believers.
I shall in the next place adjoin another portion of Scripture of the same import with those foregoing,