A53688:910
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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4. The Persons, to whom this Promise is made, are called thee, and thy Seed, that is all those, and only those, with whom God is a God in Covenant. God here minds them of the first making of this Covenant with Abraham, and his Seed Gen. 17. 7. Now who are this Seed of Abraham? Not all his carnal Posterity, not the whole Nation of the Jews; which is the last subterfuge invented by our Author, to evade the force of our Argument from this place. Our Saviour not only denies, but also proves by many Arguments, that the Pharisees and their followers, who doubtless were of the Nation of the Jews, and the carnal seed of Abraham, were not the Children of Abraham in this sense, nor his Seed, but rather the Devils, Joh: 8. 39, 40, 41. And the Apostle disputes and argues the same case, Rom. 4. 9, 10, 11. and proves undeniably, that it is Believers only, whether Circumcised or Uncircumcised, whether Jews or Gentiles, that are this Seed of Abraham, and Heirs of the Promise. So plainly, Gal. 3. 7. Know ye therefore that they, which are of the Faith are Blessed with Faithful Abraham, and then concludes again as the Issue of his debate, v. 9. So then they which he of Faith, are Blessed with Faithful Abraham: And this is the sum of what Mr Goodwin objects unto this Testimony in our case, to the perpetual abiding of the Spirit with the Saints.
4. The Persons, to whom this Promise is made, are called thee, and thy Seed, that is all those, and only those, with whom God is a God in Covenant. God here minds them of the first making of this Covenant with Abraham, and his Seed Gen. 17. 7. Now who are this Seed of Abraham? Not all his carnall Posterity, not the whole Nation of the Jewes; which is the last subterfuge invented by our Author, to evade the force of our Argument from this place. Our Saviour not only denies, but also proves by many Arguments, that the Pharisees and their followers, who doubtlesse were of the Nation of the Jewes, and the carnall seed of Abraham, were not the Children of Abraham in this sence, nor his Seed, but rather the Devills, Ioh: 8. 39, 40, 41. And the Apostle disputes and argues the same case, Rom. 4. 9, 10, 11