A53688:911
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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The force then of this Promise, 1& the influence it hath into the establishment of the Truth we have in hand, will not be evaded and turned aside, by affirming that it is made to the whole people of Israel: for besides, that the Spirit of the Lord could not be said to be in the ungodly rejected part of them, nor his Word in their mouth, there is not the least in Text or Context, to intimate ⟨p. 176⟩such an extent of this Promise, as to the object of it, and 'tis very weakly attempted to be proved from Pauls accommodation, and interpretation of the verse foregoing, and the Redeemer shall come to Zion, &c. in Rom: 11. 26. for it is most evident, and indisputable, to any one who shall but once cast an eye upon that place, that the Apostle accommodates, and applies these words to none, but only those who shall be saved, being turned away from ungodliness to Christ, which are only the seed before described. And those he calls all Israel; either in the spiritual sense of the word, as taken for the chosen Israel of God, or else indefinitely for that Nation, upon the account of those plentiful fruits, which the Gospel shall find amongst them, when they shall fear the Lord and his Goodness in the latter days.2
The force then of this Promise, 1& the influence it hath into the establishment of the Truth we have in hand, will not be evaded and turned aside, by affirming that it is made to the whole people of Israel: for besides, that the Spirit of the Lord could not be said to be in the ungodly rejected part of them, nor his Word in their mouth, there is not the least in Text or Context, to intimate ⟨p. 176⟩such an extent of this Promise, as to the object of it, and 'tis very weakly attempted to be proved from Pauls accommodation, and interpretation of the verse foregoing, and the Redeemer shall come to Sion, &c. in Rom: 11. 26. for it is most evident, and indisputable, to any one who shall but once cast an eye upon that place, that the Apostle accommodates, and applies these words to none, but only those who shall be saved, being turned away from ungodlinesse to Christ, which are only the seed before described. And those he calls all Israel; either in the spirituall sence of the word, as taken for the chosen Israel of God, or else indefinitely for that Nation, upon the account of those plentifull fruits, which the Gospell shall find amongst them, when they shall feare the Lord and his Goodnesse in the latter daies.