A53688:788
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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Let then Faith in reference unto these Promises, have its perfect work, not abiding in a naked contemplation of them, but mixing them with its self, and there will be undoubtedly found the improvement before mentioned, for the carrying on of Godliness, and Gospel obedience in the hearts of Believers; But this I shall have occasion to speak to more afterward.
Let then Faith in reference unto these Promises, have its perfect worke, not abiding in a naked contemplation of them, but mixing them with its selfe, and there will be undoubtedly found the improvement before mentioned, for the carrying on of Godlinesse, and Gospell obedience in the hearts of Believers; But this I shall have occasion to speake to more afterward.
Hosea 2. 19, 20.1 is pertinent also to the same purpose, I will betroth thee unto me for ever, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgement, and in loving kindness, and in mercies: I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness, and thou shalt know the Lord. The words themselves as they lye in the Text, do directly confirm our Assertion. The Relation, whereunto God here expresseth that he will, and doth take his People, is one of the most near and eminent, which he affordeth to them; a conjugal Relation, he is and will be their Husband, which is as high an expression of the Covenant betwixt God and his Saints, as any is, or can be used. Of all Covenants that are between sundry persons, that, which is between Man and Wife, is the strongest, and most inviolable; So is this Covenant expressed, Isai: 54. 5. Thy maker is thine Husband (the Lord of Hosts is his Name); and this Relation he affirmeth shall continue for ever, upon the Account of those Properties of his, which are engaged, in this his Gracious undertaking to take them to himself therein. He doth it in Righteousness and in Judgement, in Loving-kindness and in Mercies, and in Faithfulness; so that if there be not something in the Context, or words adjoining, that shall with an high hand turn us aside from the first, immediate, open, and full sense of these words, the case is undoubtedly concluded in them. This then we shall consider, and therefore must look a little back into the general design of the whole Chapter; for the evasion of Qualifications will not here serve: God betrotheth Persons, not Qualifications.