A53688:988
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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2. The Scripture sets forth this Union by many Illustrations, 1given unto it from the things of the nearest Union, that are subject to our apprehension, giving the very terms of the things so united, unto Christ and his, in their Union, I shall name some few of them.
2. The Scripture sets forth this Union by many Illustrations, 1given unto it from the things of the neerest Union, that are subject to our apprehension, giving the very termes of the things so united, unto Christ and his, in their Union, I shall name some few of them.
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1. That of Head and Members making up one Body,1 is often insisted on: Christ is the Head of his Saints, and they being many are Members of that one Body, and of one another, as the Apostle at large 1 Cor: 12. 12. even as the Body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so is Christ; The body is one, and the Saints are one Body, yea one Christ, that is mystical. They then are the Body: what part is Christ? He is the Head 1 Cor. 11. 3. the Head of every man (that is, every Believer) is Christ; He is the Head of the Church, and the Saviour of the Body; Ephes. 5. 23. he is the Head of the Body the Church, Col: 1. 19. This relation of Head and Members (I say) between Christ and his, holds out the Union that is between them, which consists in their being so. As the Head and the Members make one Body, so Christ and his Members make one mystical Christ; Whence then is it ⟨p. 196⟩