A53688:855
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. That which is moral, & procuring such separation or distance, which is the Guilt of Sin.
1. That which is morall, & procuring such seperation or distance, which is the Guilt of Sinne.
2. That which is Efficient, & working as the power of Satan & of sin. The first of these, being that alone, for which it may be supposed that God will turn from Believers; and the latter, that alone, whereby they may possibly be turned from him. Now that both these are so taken out of the way by the Oblation of Christ, that they shall never actually & eventually work, or cause any total, or final separation between God & Believers, shall be demonstrated.
2. That which is Efficient, & working as the power of Sathan & of sinne. The first of these, being that alone, for which it may be supposed that God will turne from Believers; and the latter, that alone, whereby they may possibly be turned from him. Now that both these are so taken out of the way by the Oblation of Christ, that they shall never actually & eventually worke, or cause any totall, or finall separation betweene God & Believers, shall be demonstrated.
1. He hath so taken away the Guilt of Sin from Believers,1 from them that come to God by him,2 that it shall not prevail with the Lord to turn from them: He hath obtained for us Eternal Redemption Heb. 9. 12. Eternal and Complete; 3