A53688:917
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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1. That Condition, if they prove not extremely unworthy, is extremely unworthily inserted; the Promise being an engagement of God to keep and preserve them, to whom it is made by his Spirit, from being so; the Spirit is given and continued to them for that very purpose.
1. That Condition, if they prove not extremely unworthy, is extremely unworthily inserted; the Promise being an ingagement of God to keepe and preserve them, to whom it is made by his Spirit, from being so; the Spirit is given and continued to them for that very purpose.
2. It is supposed to be given to all the Nation of the Jews, when it is expressly made to the Church, and Seed in Covenant.
2. It is supposed to be given to all the Nation of the Jewes, when it is expressly made to the Church, and Seed in Covenant.
3. It carries the Mercy promised no higher then outward dispensations, when the words expressly mention, the Spirit already received. Evident it is, that the whole Grace, Love, Kindness, and Mercy of this eminent Promise, and consequently the whole Covenant of Grace, is enervated by this corrupting Gloss; Do men think indeed, that all the mercy of the Covenant of Grace consists in such tenders, and offers, as here are intimated? that it all lies in outward endearments, and such dealings with men, as may seem to be suited to win upon them: and that, as to the real exhibition of it, it is wholly suspended upon the unstable, uncertain, frail wills of men? The Scripture seems to hold out something farther of more efficacy.1 The design of these exceptions,2