A53688:886
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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2. That interposition of the Lord Christ,1 whereof we have been treating, being a medium indispensably necessary as to satisfaction,2 and freely designed ⟨p. 169⟩by the will and Wisdom of God, for such a procurement of the good things designed in his Eternal Counsel, as might advance the Glory of his Grace, and make known his Righteousness also: And this being fixed on by God, as the only thing by him required, that all the Mercies, all the Grace of his eternal Purpose, might be dispensed in the order by him designed unto them;3 upon the performance of it, God resteth, as well pleased, and they for whom he hath mediated by his Blood,4 or for whom he is considered so to have done,5 are reconciled unto God, as to that part of Reconciliation, which respects the Love of God, as to the dispensing the fruits of it, unto them, even whilst they are enemies, upon the accounts before mentioned.
2. That interposition of the Lord Christ,1 whereof we have been treating, being a medium indispensably necessary as to satisfaction,2 and freely designed ⟨p. 169⟩by the will and Wisdome of God, for such a procurement of the good things designed in his Eternall Counsell, as might advance the Glory of his Grace, and make knowne his Righteousnesse also: And this being fixed on by God, as the only thing by him required, that all the Mercies, all the Grace of his eternall Purpose, might be dispensed in the order by him designed unto them;3