A53688:871
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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First,1 though the Justice, Law, 2and Truth of God be satisfied and fulfilled, as to their sins,3 that he hath not, as on that account, any thing to lay to their charge,4 yet this hinders not at all, but that God may assign and ascribe such a way for their coming to him, as may be suited to the exalting of his Glory, the Honour of Jesus Christ, who hath brought all this about, and the preparing of the soul of the sinner for the full enjoyment of himself;5 & this he ⟨p. 165⟩hath done by the Law of Faith, which gives him the Glory of his Grace,6 and all his other Attributes, exalts Jesus Christ, whom it is his will we should Honour, as we Honour himself, 7& empties the poor sinful Creature of it self,8 that it may be made meet for the Inheritance of the Saints in Light.
First,1 though the Justice, Law, 2and Truth of God be satisfyed and fulfilled, as to their sinnes,3 that he hath not, as on that account, any thing to lay to their charge,4 yet this hinders not at all, but that God may assigne and ascribe such a way for their coming to him, as may be suited to the exalting of his Glory, the Honour of Jesus Christ, who hath brought all this about, and the preparing of the soule of the sinner for the full enjoyment of himselfe;