A53688:894
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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for whereas they universally contented themselves, with sacrifices, purifications, purgations, lustrations, satisfactions, recompenses to be in this life performed, these latter, more refined, sublimated mercurial wits, observing that nothing, they could here invent, would settle and charm the spirits of men haunted with the dread of death we speak of, but that instantly they came again with the same disquietness as formerly, & renewed mention of sin, upon the insufficiency of the Atonement fixed on for its expiation, they found out that noble expedient of the future Purgatory, which might maintain the souls of men in some hopes in this life, and secure themselves from the cries & complaints of men, against the insufficiency of their Remedy, which they do prescribe.
for whereas they universally contented themselves, with sacrifices, purifications, purgations, lustrations, satisfactions, recompenses to be in this life performed, these latter, more refined, sublimated mercuriall wits, observing that nothing, they could here invent, would settle and charme the spirits of men haunted with the dread of death we speake of, but that instantly they came againe with the same disquietnesse as formerly, & renewed mention of sinne, upon the insufficiency of the Attonement fixed on for its expiation, they found out that noble expedient of the future Purgatory, which might maintaine the soules of men in some hopes in this life, and secure themselves from the cryes & complaints of men, against the insufficiency of their Remedy, which they doe prescribe.
2. As he rules over men by death, and hell that follows after, so also he rules in men by sin, he ruleth in the children of disobedience. Eph. 2. 2. And to this end, to secure men to himself, he being that strong man armed, who hath the first possession,1 and labours to keep what he hath got,2 in peace, he sets up strong holds,