A53688:982
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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Many thoughts of heart there have been about this Union;1 what it is, wherein it doth consist, the causes, manner, and Effects of it; The Scripture expresses it, to be very Eminent, near, durable, setting it out, for the most part, by similitudes, and Metaphorical Illustrations, to lead poor weak Creatures into some useful, needful acquaintance with that Mystery, whose depths in this life, they shall never fathom: That many in the days wherein we live, have miscarried in their conceptions of it, is evident; some to ⟨p. 194⟩make out their Imaginary Union, have destroyed the person of Christ, and fancying a way of uniting man to God by him, have left him to be neither God nor Man. Others have destroyed the Person of Believers, affirming that in their Union with Christ, they loose their own Personality, that is, cease to be Men: or at least these or these Individual men.
Many thoughts of heart there have been about this Union;1 what it is, wherein it doth consist, the causes, manner, and Effects of it; The Scripture expresses it, to be very Eminent, neere, durable, setting it out, for the most part, by similitudes, and Metaphoricall Illustrations, to lead poore weak Creatures into some usefull, needfull acquaintance with that Mystery, whose depths in this life, they shall never fathome: That many in the dayes wherein we live, have miscarried in their conceptions of it, is evident; some to ⟨p. 194⟩make out their Imaginary Union, have destroyed the person of Christ, and fancying a way of uniting man to God by him, have left him to be neither God nor Man. Others have destroyed the Person of Believers, affirming that in their Union with Christ, they loose their own Personality, that is, cease to be Men: or at least these or these Individuall men.
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