A53688:876
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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Secondly, we are said to do, together with Christ, those things, which he doth for us in his own person:1 and that upon the account of that benefit, which by those his personal performances,2 doth redound unto us, and which being done,3 the Quarrel about sin, as to make an utter separation between God and our souls,4 is certainly removed; Thus we are said to die with him, to be raised again with him, and with him we enter into the holy place; this whole business about sin being passed through: for he that is dead, is justified from sin. Now all this being done by us, and for us, in, & by our head, can we henceforth die any more? shall death any more have dominion over us? This the Apostle argues, 2 Cor. 5. 15. we judge (saith he) that if one dyed for all, then were all they (that is, all those for whom he dyed) dead, or dyed likewise; they were dead in, and with him, their sponsor, as to the curse due for sin, that henceforth they might live to him that dyed for them.
Secondly, we are said to doe, together with Christ, those things, which he doth for us in his own person:1 and that upon the account of that benefit, which by those his personall performances,2 doth redound unto us, and which being done,3 the Quarrell about sinne, as to make an utter separation between God and our souls,4 is certainly removed; Thus we are said to dy with him, to be raised again with him, and with him we enter into the holy place; this whole businesse about sin being passed through: for he that is dead, is justifyed from sin. Now all this being done by us, and for us, in, & by our head, can we hencesorth dy any more? shall death any more have dominion over us? This the Apostle argues,