A53688:821
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. By their delivery from Idolatry and false-worship, v: 16, 17. which is particularly and peculiarly insisted on, because that eminently was the sin, for which, those mentioned in the beginning of the Chapter, were utterly rejected: God will preserve these, as from the sin of Idolatry, so from any other, that should procure their utter Rejection and desolation, as that of Idolatry had formerly done, in respect of the only carnal Jews.
1. By their delivery from Idolarty and falfe-worship, v: 16, 17. which is particularly and peculiarly insisted on, because that eminently was the sinne, for which, those mentioned in the beginning of the Chapter, were utterly rejected: God will preserve these, as from the sinne of Idolatry, so from any other, that should procure their utter Rejection and desolation, as that of Idolatry had formerly done, in respect of the only carnall Jewes.
2. By their protection against their enemies, v: 18. and these are the Persons to whom this Promise is made; converted, justified, sanctified, and purified Persons.
2ly We may take a little view of the Nature of the Promise it self,1 I will (saith the Lord) betroth thee unto me for ever; There is in this Promise a twofold opposition to that Rejection, that God had before denounced unto the carnal and rebellious Jews. 1. In the Nature of the thing it self, unto the divorce, that God gave them v. 2. She is not my Wife, neither am I her Husband: but to these (saith God) I will betroth them unto my self, they shall become a Wife to me, and I will be a Husband unto them: and this also manifesteth that they are not the same persons, to whom that threatening was given, that are principally intended in this Promise; For if God did only take them again, whom he had once put away, there would have been no need of any betrothing of them anew; New Sponsalia are not required for such an Action.