A53688:923
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. The design of this discourse is to prove,1 that this Promise is not made to Believers in general, or those, who through the word, are brought to believe in Christ in all Generations to the end of the World: and consequently that they have no Promise of the Spirits abiding with them: for that is the thing opposed; and this is part of the Doctrine, that tends to their Consolation and improvement in Holiness. What thanks they will give to the Authors of such an eminent discovery, when it shall be determined that they have deserved well of them, and the Truths of God, I know not: especially when it shall be considered that not only this, but all other Promises uttered by Christ to his Apostles (as we had thought) not for their own behoof alone, but also for the use of the Church in all ages, are tied up in their tendency and use to the men of that Generation, and to the employment, to which they, to whom he spoke, were designed; But let us see whether these things are so or no. I say,
1. The designe of this discourse is to prove,1 that this Promise is not made to Believers in generall, or those, who through the word, are brought to believe in Christ in all Generations to the end of the World: and consequently that they have no Promise of the Spirits abiding with them: for that is the thing opposed; and this is part of the Doctrine, that tends to their Consolation and improvement in Holinesse. What thankes they will give to the Authors of such an eminent discovery, when it shall be determined that they have deserved well of them, and the Truths of God, I know not: especially when it shall be considered that not only this, but all other Promises uttered by Christ to his Apostles (as we had thought) not for their own behoofe alone, but also for the use of the Church in all ages, are tyed up in their tendency and use to the men of that Generation, and to the employment, to which they, to whom he spoke, were designed; But let us see whether these things are so or no. I say,
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