A53688:889
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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But this is not the matter, or subject of our present Contest. This then is the first influence, which the Bloodshedding in the death & Oblation of Christ, hath into the Saints continuance of the Love and Favour of God; It taketh away the guilt of sin, that it shall not be such a provocation to the eyes of his Glory, (his Law being fulfilled, and Justice satisfied) as to cause him utterly to turn away his Love from them,1 And they becoming the Righteousness of God in him, to all intents and purposes, what should separate them from the Love of God?2 He hath made peace in the Blood of the Cross of his Son,3 and will not engage in enmity against his Elect any more to Eternity: But in his own way and own time (as he hath the Sovereignty of all in his hands) he will bring them infallibly to the enjoyment of himself. And thus much by this discourse about the effects of the Death of Christ, have we clearly obtained; what Christ aims to accomplish by his Death, and what was the design and intention of the Father, that he should accomplish, that cannot fail of its issue and appointed event, by any interposure whatever. That the effectual removal of every thing, that might intercept, hinder, or turn aside the Love and Favour of God from them, for whom he dyed, is the designed effect of the death of Christ, hath been demonstrated. This then, in the order, wherein it hath seemed good, to the infinite Wisdom of God to proceed in dispensing his Grace unto sinners, shall certainly be fulfilled, and all Believers saved to the utmost.
But this is not the matter, or subject of our present Contest. This then is the first influence, which the Bloodshedding in the death & Oblation of Christ, hath into the Saints continuance of the Love and Favour of God; It taketh away the guilt of sinne, that it shall not be such a provocation to the eyes of his Glory, (his Law being fulfilled, and Justice satisfyed) as to cause him utterly to turne away his Love from them,1 And they becoming the Righteousnesse of God in him, to all intents and purposes, what should separate them from the Love of God?2