A53688:885
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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1 Gods eternal purpose of saving some,1 in, and by the mediation of Christ,2 that mediation of Christ being interposed between the purpose of God,3 and the accomplishment of the thing purposed,4 as the fruit and effect of the one,5 the meritorious procuring cause of the other. This Act of the Will of God,6 the Scripture knows by no other name then that of Election, or Predestination, or the Purpose of God according to Election, or the Purpose of his Will in Jesus Christ,7 which though it comprise his Will of not punishing them in their own persons,8 that are within the verge of this his Purpose,9 yet it is not properly an Act of forgiveness of sins,10 nor are they pardoned by it,11 nor is the Law actually innovated,12 or its obligation on them unto punishment dissolved,13 nor themselves justified in any sense thereby.
1 Gods eternall purpose of saving some,1