A53688:990
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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As then one living soul makes the natural Head & Members to be one, one body; so one quickening Spirit, dwelling in Christ and his members, gives them their Union, & makes them one Christ, one body. This is clear from the 1 Cor. 12. 12. As the first man Adam was made a living Soul, so the last man Adam, is made a quickening Spirit.
As then one living soule makes the naturall Head & Members to be one, one body; so one quickning Spirit, dwelling in Christ and his members, gives them their Union, & makes them one Christ, one body. This is cleare from the 1 Cor. 12. 12. As the first man Adam was made a living Soul, so the last man Adam, is made a quickning Spirit.
Secondly,1 Of Husband and Wife: The Union, that is between them, sets out the Union betwixt Christ and his Saints; There is not any one more frequent Illustration of it in the Scripture, the Holy Ghost pursuing the allusion in all the most considerable Concernments of it, and holding it out, as the most solemn Representation of the Union, that is between Christ and his Church. Ephes. 5. 31, 32. For this cause shall a man forsake his Father and Mother, and cleave to his Wife, and they two shall be one flesh: This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the Church. The transition is eminent from the Conjugal Relation, that is between man and wife, unto Christ and his Church. What the Apostle had spoken of the one, he would have understood of the other. Wherein consists then the Union between man, and wife, which is chosen by God himself to represent the Union between Christ and his Church? The Holy Ghost informs us, Gen. 2. 24. They shall be no more twain, but one flesh; This is their union, they shall be no more twain, but (in all mutual care, respect, tenderness, and love,) one flesh. The Rise of this you have v. 23. Because of the bone & flesh of Adam, was Eve, his helper, made; Hence are they said to be one flesh. Wherein then, in answer to this, is the Union between Christ, and his Church? The same Apostle tells us