A53688:957
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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Believers are said to be sealed by the Holy Spirit of God, against, or until, or for ([Greek or Hebrew]) the day of Redemption, because that Holiness, which is wrought in them by the Spirit of God, qualifies them, puts them into a present and actual Capacity of partaking in that Joy and Glory, which the Great day of the full Redemption of the Saints, (that is, of those, who lived, and dyed, and shall be found such) shall bring with it; and it is called the Earnest of their Inheritance.
Believers are said to be sealed by the Holy Spirit of God, against, or untill, or for (〈non-Latin alphabet〉) the day of Redemption, because that Holinesse, which is wrought in them by the Spirit of God, qualifies them, puts them into a present and actuall Capacity of partaking in that Joy and Glory, which the Great day of the full Redemption of the Saints, (that is, of those, who lived, and dyed, and shall be found such) shall bring with it; and it is called the Earnest of their Inheritance.
Ans. How [Greek or Hebrew] comes to be against, or for, or to denote the matter spoken of, and what all this is to the purpose in hand, he shows not. The aim of him the words are spoken of, and the uninterrupted continuance of the work mentioned, to the end expressed, seems rather to be intended in the ⟨p. 187⟩whole Coherence of the words. Neither is the use of Sealing, to prepare any thing, for such a time, but to secure and preserve it thereunto. He that hath a Conveyance Sealed unto him, is not only capacitated for the present, to receive the estate conveyed, but is principally assured of a Right & Title, for a continued enjoyment of it, not to be reversed. It is not the nature of this work of the Holy Ghost, wherein it is coincident which other acts of his Grace; but the particular use of it, as it is a Sealing, and Gods intendment by it, to confirm us to the day of Redemption, that comes under our Consideration. If it were a season to inquire, wherein it consists. I suppose we should scarce close with Mr Goodwin's description of it, viz. That it is a qualifying of men, and putting them in an actual capacity to partake of Joy &c. He is the first, I know of, that gave this description of it, and probably the last that will do so. Of the Earnest of the Spirit in its proper place.