A53688:842
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. Observe that there is a great opposition to be made against the Saints, in that condition, wherein they are promised to be preserved. This is supposed in the words themselves. There is none shall take them out of my hands: my Father is great, and none shall be able to take them out of his hands. As if he should have said, It is true, many Enemies they have, great opposition will there be, and arise against them on all hands, but preserved they shall be in the midst of them all; But now what Enemies, what opposition will there be, and arise against the Saints in Heaven? The Holy Ghost telleth us, the last enemy is Death, and that at the Resurrection, that shall be utterly swallowed up into Victory, that it shall never lift up the head; There they rest from their labours who dye in the Lord. Yea, it is exceeding ridiculous to suppose, that the Saints need Assurance of the engagement of the Omnipotency of God, for their safeguarding in heaven, against all opposition, when they are assured of nothing more, then that there they shall not be liable to the least opposition, or obstruction, in their enjoyment of God, unto all eternity.
1. Observe that there is a great opposition to be made against the Saints, in that condition, wherein they are promised to be preserved. This is supposed in the words themselves. There is none shall take them out of my hands: my Father is great, and none shall be able to take them out of his hands. As if he should have said, It is true, many Enemies they have, great opposition will there be, and arise against them on all hands, but preserved they shall be in the midst of them all; But now what Enemies, what opposition will there be, and arise against the Saints in Heaven? The Holy Ghost telleth us, the last •nemy is Death, and that at the Resurrection, that shall be utterly swallowed up into Victory, that it shall never lift up the head; There they rest from their labours who dye in the Lord. Yea, it is exceeding ridiculous to suppose, that the Saints need Assurance of the engagement of the Omnipotency of God, for their safeguarding in heaven, against all opposition, when they are assured of nothing more, then that there they shall not be liable to the least opposition, or obstruction, in their enjoyment of God, unto all eternity.