A53688:884
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 Fourthly, That Faith and Belief are necessary, not to add any thing to complete the procurement of forgiveness of sins, any or all; but only to the Actual receiving of it, when upon the account of the death of Christ, it pleaseth God, in the Promise of the Gospel, to hold it out, and impart it unto the soul, thereby completing Covenant-justification. And thus the whole business of Salvation, may be resolved into the mediation of Christ, and yet men carried on, under an orderly dispensation of Law and Gospel, into the enjoyment of it.1 Of the whole, these degrees are considerable.
4 Fourthly, That Faith and Beliefe are necessary, not to adde any thing to compleat the procurement of forgivenesse of sins, any or all; but only to the Actuall receiving of it, when upon the account of the death of Christ, it pleaseth God, in the Promise of the Gospell, to hold it out, and impart it unto the soule, thereby compleating Covenant-justification. And thus the whole businesse of Salvation, may be resolved into the mediation of Christ, and yet men carried on, under an orderly dispensation of Law and Gospell, into the enjoyment of it.1 Of the whole, these degrees are considerable.