A53688:845
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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CAP. VII.
1. The Consideration of the Oath of God deferred. 2. The method first proposed somewhat waved. The influence of the mediation of Christ into God's free and unchangeable acceptance of Believers proposed. Reasons of that proposal. 3, 4. Of the Oblation of Christ. Its influence into the Saints Perseverance. All causes of separation between God and Believers, taken away thereby. Moral and efficient causes thereby removed. 5. The guilt of sin, how taken away by the death of Christ▪ Of the Nature of Redemption. Conscience of sin, how abolished by the sacrifice of Christ Heb: 10. 3, 4, 14. 6. Dan. 9. 24. opened. Rom: 2 34. 7. Deliverance from all sin, how by the death of Christ. The Law innovated in respect of the Elect. 8. The vindictive justice of God satisfied by the death of Christ: How that is done. Wherein satisfaction doth consist. Absolute not conditional. 9. The Law how fulfilled in the Death of Christ. 10. The Truth of God thereby accomplished: His distributive justice engaged. 11. Observations for the clearing of the former assertions. Whether any one, for whom Christ died, may dye in sin. The necessity of Faith and Obedience. The Reasons thereof. The end of Faith and Holiness. 12. The first Argument for the proof of the former Assertions, concerning the fruit, and efficacy of the death of Christ: Heb. 9. 14. The second. The third. The compact between the Father & Son about the work of mediation. 14. The Fourth. Good things bestowed on them for whom Christ died, antecedently to any thing spiritually good in them. The Spirit so bestowed, and Faith it self. The close of those Arguments. 14. Inferences from the foregoing discourse. The Efficacy of the death of Christ, and the necessity of Faith and Obedience reconciled. Sundry considerations unto that end proposed. All Spiritual mercies, fruits of the death of Christ. (2.) All the fruits of Christs death laid up in the hand of Gods Righteousness. (3.) The state of them, for whom Christ died not actually changed by his death. (4) On what account Believing is necessary. 15. Christ secures the stability of the Saints abiding with God. What is contrary thereunto, how by him removed. The World overcome by Christ, as managed by Satan in an enmity to the Saints. 16. The complete victory of Christ over the Devil. The ways, whereby he completes his conquest.