Perseverance: Faith, Salvation, Necessary, Obedience

No. 218

Though perseverance is acknowledged by Calvinian divines to be necessary to salvation, yet it seems to me that the manner in which it is necessary has not been sufficiently set forth. 'Tis owned to be necessary as a sine qua non; and also is expressed by that, that though it is not that by which we first come to have a title to eternal life, yet it is n…