A53688:850
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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There remains nothing for the confirmation of the first branch,1 or part of the Truth proposed, but only the consideration of the Oath of God; which because it ought certainly to be an end of all strife, I shall reserve the handling of it to the close of the whole; if God be pleased to carry us out thereunto, that we may give The Oath of God its due Honour, of being the last word in this Contest.
THere remaines nothing for the confirmation of the first branch,1 or part of the Truth proposed, but only the consideration of the Oath of God; which because it ought certainly to be an end of all strife, I shall reserve the handling of it to the close of the whole; if God be pleased to carry us out thereunto, that we may give The Oath of God its due Honour, of being the last word in this Contest.
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The order of our method first proposed would here call me to handle our Steadfastness with God, and the Glory created upon our Grace of Sanctification: ⟨p. 159⟩But because some men may admire, and ask, whence it is, that the Lord will abide so Steadfast in his Love towards Believers, as hath been manifested upon several accounts, that he will, besides what hath been said before of his own Goodness and Unchangeableness &c. I shall now add that outward consideration, which lies in the Mediation of Christ, upon the account whereof, he acts his own Goodness, and Kindness to us, with the greatest advantage of Glory ad Honour to himself, that can be thought upon. Only I shall desire the Reader to observe, that the Lord Jesus is an undertaker in this business of perfecting our Salvation, and safeguarding our Spiritual Glory, not in one regard and respect only; There is one part of his Engagement therein, which, under the Oath of God, is the close of the whole; and that is, his becoming a surety to us of his Fathers Faithfulness towards us; and a surety for us, of our Faithfulness to him; so that upon the whole matter, the business on each side, as to security, will be found knit up in him, and there we shall do well to leave it, though the handling of that suretyship of his be not of our present consideration; Men will scarce dispute him out of his Faithfulness; Henceforth he dyeth no more, death hath no more dominion over him, he sits at the right hand of God, expecting to have his enemies made his footstool: This then I will do if God permit. And for the steadfastness of his Saints, in their abiding with God, I shall (I fear) no otherwise insist peculiarly upon it, but as occasion shall be ministered by dealing with our Adversary, as we pass on.