A53688:866
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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4. The distributive Justice of God is,1 upon this Oblation of Christ engaged upon the Covenant and compact made with Christ as Mediator, to that purpose, to bestow on them, for whom he Offered and Dyed, all the good things which he promised him for them, in and upon the account of his undertaking ⟨p. 164⟩in their behalf: The distributive Justice of God, is that perfection of his Nature, 2whereby he rendereth to every one, according to what, either his vindictive Justice on the one side,3 or his Uprightness, and Faithfulness, on the other, do require. In rewarding, it respects his own Faithfulness in all his engagements immediately, in punishing, the demerit of the Creature: there being no such natural connection and necessary coherence, from the nature of the things themselves, between Obedience and Reward, as there is between Sin and Punishment.
4. The distributive Justice of God is,1 upon this Oblation of Christ ingaged upon the Covenant and compact made with Christ as Mediator, to that purpose, to bestow on them, for whom he Offered and Dyed, all the good things which he promised him for them, in and upon the account of his undertaking ⟨p. 164⟩in their behalfe: The distributive Justice of God, is that perfection of his Nature, 2whereby he rendreth to every one, according to what, either his vindictive Justice on the one side,3 or his Uprightnesse, and Faithfulnesse, on the other, do require. In rewarding, it respects his owne Faithfulnesse in all his ingagements immediately, in punishing, the demerit of the Creature: there being no such naturall connexion and necessary coherence, from the nature of the things themselves, between Obedience and Reward, as there is between Sinne and Punishment.