A53688:865
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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3. The Truth, 1or veracity of God was particularly engaged to see sin punished, upon the account of the Promulgation of the first express Sanction of the Law; In the day thou eatest, 2thou shalt dye; For the satisfying the engagement of God's Truth, there seemed to be a tender made in the Sacrifices instituted of old: but it was rejected, as insufficient to make good that Word of God, so eminently given out; There was neither any such Relation, Union, or Conjunction between the sinner and the innocent Creature Sacrificed, or any such real worth in the Sacrifice it self, as that the Death of the substituted beast, might by any means be so interpreted, as to amount to the accomplishment of the Truth of God: Death being once denounced, as the reward of sin. Heb. 10. 5, 6. Sacrifices and Offerings for sin thou wouldest not, in burnt-Offerings and Sacrifices for sin thou hadst no pleasure; but saith our Saviour Lo I come to do thy will, O God, v. 7. Will that do it? Yea, it will assuredly, for in the volume of his Book it is written, that he should so do; All that God willed to be done for the accomplishment of his Truth, was fulfilled by Christ, when he came to give up himself a sweet smelling Sacrifice, Ephes. 5. 2. God then may be true, His Truth being salved to the utmost, though never any one of them, for whom Christ Dyed, do dye: But this to the Salvation of Believers, is only as removens prohibens.
3. The Truth, 1or veracity of God was particularly ingaged to see sin punished, upon the account of the Promulgatiō of the first expres Sanction of the Law; In the day thou eatest, 2thou shalt dye; For the satisfying the ingagement of God's Truth, there seem'd to be a tender made in the Sacrifices instituted of old: but it was rejected, as insufficient to make good that Word of God, so eminently given out; There was neither any such Relation, Union, or Conjunction between the sinner and the innocent Creature Sacrificed, or any such reall worth in the Sacrifice it selfe, as that the Death of the substituted beast, might by any meanes be so interpreted, as to amount to the accomplishment of the Truth of God: Death being once denounced, as the reward of sinne.