A53688:801
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. Is there any title, Iota, or word in the whole Text to intimate that this Promise is conditional, and dependeth on the peoples forsaking their Idolatry, The 14, 16, 17. verses are urged for proof thereof; God indeed in those verses doth graciously promise that from the Riches of the same Grace whence he freely saith, that he will Betroth them to himself, that he will convert them, and turn them away from their Idolatry, and all their sins; but that that should be required of them, as a condition whereon God will enter into Covenant with them, there is nothing in the whole Context, from v. 14. and downwards, that intimateth it in the least, or will endure to be wrested to any such sense; it holding out several distinct Acts, of the same free Grace, of his unto his People.
1. Is there any title, Iota, or word in the whole Text to intimate that this Promise is conditionall, and dependeth on the peoples forsaking their Idolatry, The 14, 16, 17. verses are urged for proofe thereof; God indeed in those verses doth graciously promise that from the Riches of the same Grace whence he freely saith, that he will Betroth them to himselfe, that he will convert them, and turne them away from their Idolatry, and all their sinnes; but that that should be required of them, as a condition whereon God will enter into Covenant with them, there is nothing in the whole Context, from v. 14. and downewards, that intimateth it in the least, or will endure to be wrested to any such sence; it holding out severall distinct Acts, of the same free Grace, of his unto his People.
2. That this is a Promise of entering into Covenant with them; cannot be denied. Now that God should require their Repentance, as an antecedaneous, previous qualification to his receiving them into Covenant, and yet in the Covenant, undertake to give them that Repentance, as he doth, in promising them to take away their hearts of stone, and give them new hearts of flesh, is a direct Contradiction, sit only for a part of that Divinity, which is in the whole▪ an express contradiction to the Word, and mind of God.
2. That this is a Promise of entring into Covenant with them; cannot be denied. Now that God should require their Repentance, as an antecedaneous, previous qualification to his receiving them into Covenant, and yet in the Covenant, undertake to give them that Repentance, as he doth, in promising them to take away their hearts of stone, and give them new hearts of flesh, is a direct Contradiction, sit only for a part of that Divinity, which is in the whole an expresse contradiction to the Word, and mind of God.