A53688:902
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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Now that this Spirit,1 promised in the Covenant of Grace as to the bestowing of him on the elect of God, or those for whom Christ dyed, is of his purchasing and procurement in his Death, is apparent,
- 1§. 20.
1. Because he is the Mediator of the Covenant, by whose hands, and for whose sake, all the Mercies of it are made out to them, who are admitted into the bond thereof.1 Though men are not completely stated in the Covenant before their own Believing,2 which brings in what of their part is stipulated, yet the Covenant and Grace of it lays hold of them before, even to bestow Faith on them,3 or they would never Believe: for Faith is not of our selves, it is the Gift of God. God certainly bestows no such Gifts, but from a Covenant. Spiritual Graces are not administered solely in a providential dispensation.4 Faith for the receiving the pardon of sin, is no gift, nor product of the Covenant of works. Now, as in general the Mercies of the Covenant are procured by the Mediator of it, so this, whereof we speak, in an especial ⟨p. 173⟩manner Heb. 9. 15. For this cause he is the mediator of the New Testament, that by means of death, they which are called might receive the Promise of Eternal Inheritance. By his death, they for whom he dyed, and who thereupon are called,5