A53688:806
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. The very Conjugal Expression of the Love of God here used, manifesteth it beyond all contradiction, to be a Promise of the Covenant: I will Betroth thee unto me, I will take thee unto me in a Wedlock covenant. What! in Temporal mercies? Is that the tenor of the Covenant of God? God forbid!
1. The very Conjugall Expression of the Love of God here used, manifesteth it beyond all contradiction, to be a Promise of the Covenant: I will Betroth thee unto mee, I will take thee unto mee in a Wedlock covenant. What! in Temporall mercies? Is that the tenor of the Covenant of God? God forbid!
2. The Foundations of these Mercies, and the principles from whence they flow, are Loving-kindnesses, and Mercy, and Faithfulness in God, which are fixed upon them, and engaged unto them, whom he thus taketh into Covenant; ⟨p. 149⟩and surely they are Spiritual Mercies.
2. The Foundations of these Mercies, and the principles from whence they flow, are Loving-kindnesses, and Mercy, and Fathfulnesse in God, which are fixed upon them, and engaged unto them, whom he thus taketh into Covenant; ⟨p. 149⟩and surely they are Spirituall Mercies.
3. The Mercies mentioned are such, as never had a literal accomplishment to the Jews in Temporals, nor can have; and when things promised exceed all accomplishment as to the outward and temporal part, it is the spiritual, that is principally and mainly intended; And such are these, v. 18. I will break the bow, and the sword, and the battle out of the earth, and make you to lye down in safety: How I pray was this fulfilled towards them, whilst they lived under the power of the Persian, Grecian, and Roman Empires, to their utter desolation? and v. 23. he telleth them that he will sow them unto himself in the Earth, and have mercy on them: which, as I said before, Paul himself interpreteth, and applieth to the special Mercies of Faith, and Justification in the blood of Christ; So that both the verses going before, and those that follow after, to the consideration whereof we are sent, contain directly, and properly spiritual Mercies, though expressed in words, and terms of things of a temporal importance. Thus notwithstanding any Exception to the contrary, the Context is clear, as it was at first proposed; Let us then in the next place, consider the intendment of God in this Promise, with that influence of Demonstration, which it hath upon the Truth we are in the consideration of, and then free the words from that corrupting Gloss, which is endeavoured to be put upon them.