A53688:863
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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on a supposition of sin in such Creatures, as being made meet and fit to yield voluntary Obedience unto God, and so standing in a moral subjection to him, being their cutting off, what lies in them, their dependence on God; (which that it should be continued, is as necessary as that God be God, or the Lord of all) Those Creatures are upon the account of the Sovereignty & Righteousness of God, whereof we speak, indispensably obnoxious unto punishment, which is of necessity required unto Gods retaining his Dominion over them. By the Death of Christ, this Condition is so far repaired, that the dependence and subjection unto God, of those, for whom he Dyed, is made up, so far as to a deliverance of them, from a necessity of being obnoxious unto punishment, and that completely, without any Abeyance upon conditions in themselves, which can have no influence thereunto. So that though the process of the Law, sent forth,1 be not instantly recalled, but man is suffered to lye under that arrest for a season,2 yet God lets fall his suit on this account,3 and will never pass his first sentence,4 from which we are reprieved, unto full and final execution: pronouncing himself,5 well pleased with his Son, resting satisfied with his mediatory performances, and seeking no farther.
on a supposition of sinne in such Creatures, as being made meet and fit to yeild voluntary Obedience unto God, and so standing in a morall subjection to him, being their cutting off, what lyes in them, their dependance on God; (which that it should be contlnued, is as necessary as that God be God, or the Lord of all) Those Creatutes are upon the account of the Soveraignty & Righteousnesse of God, whereof we speake, indipensably obnoxious unto punishment, which is of necessity required unto Gods retaining his Dominion over them. By the Death of Christ, this Condition is so farre repaired, that the dependance and subjection unto God, of those, for whom he Dyed, is made up, so farre as to a deliverance of them, from a necessity of being obnoxious unto punishment, and that compleately, without any Abeyance upon conditions in themselves, which can have no influence thereunto. So that though the proces of the Law, sent forth,