A53688:868
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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Thus upon the Account of the Death of Christ, antecedently to all considerations of Faith,1 or Belief, in them for whom he Dyed, thus much is done,2 for the extinguishing the quarrel about sin:3 The vindictive Justice, Law, and Truth of God are disengaged from pursuing the Sentence of Death and Everlasting Separation from God,4 against them as sinners; Neither have they at all any thing to lay to their charge, for which they should be cast out of the presence of God:5 Yea the Lord is moreover, in his own Faithfulness & Righteousness, 6with respect to the Covenant of the Mediator, engaged to do that which is needful,7 to the bringing of them to himself; After some previous Observations,8 I shall confirm what hath been spoken, by sundry Arguments. I say then,
Thus upon the Account of the Death of Christ, antecedently to all considerations of Faith,1 or Beliefe, in them for whom he Dyed, thus much is done,2 for the extinguishing the quarrell about sinne:3 The vindictive Justice, Law, and Truth of God are disingaged from pursuing the Sentence of Death and Everlasting Separation from God,4 against them as sinners; Neither have they at all any thing to lay to their charge, for which they should be cast out of the presence of God: