A53688:840
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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2. That this Promise of safety, made to his Sheep by Christ, doth not relate to their state or condition in this present world, but that of the world to come. My Sheep hear my voice and follow me, in which words of hearing and following him, he intimateth or includeth their Perseverance, as appeareth by the words immediately following. And I give them Eternal Life.
2. That this Promise of safety, made to his Sheepe by Christ, doth not relate to their state or condition in this present world, but that of the world to come. My Sheepe heare my voice and follow me, in which words of hearing and following him, he intimateth or includeth their Perseverance, as appeareth by the words immediately following. And I give them Eternall Life.
Ans. This I confess is to the purpose if it be true: but being so contrary to what hath been (I had almost said Universally) received, concerning the mind of Christ in this place, we had need of evident concluding Reasons, to enforce the truth of this gloss or interpretation. For the present I shall give you some few inducements or persuasions, why it seemeth altogether unsuitable to the mind of our Blessed Saviour, that this engagement of his Fathers Power, and his own, should be shut out from taking any place in the Kingdom of Grace.
Ans. This I confesse is to the purpose if it be true: but being so contrary to what hath been (I had almost said Universally) received, concerning the mind of Christ in this place, we had need of evident concluding Reasons, to enforce the truth of this glosse or interpretation. For the present I shall give you some few inducements or perswasions, why it seemeth altogether unsuitable to the mind of our Blessed Saviour, that this ingagement of his Fathers Power, and his owne, should be shut out from taking any place in the Kingdome of Grace.