Final Perseverance: What is it?
Overview
Can a believer ever be lost? Do those who rescind their belief in Christ compromise their eternal salvation? In Final Perseverance: What Is It?, Mackintosh examines the words of Christ and the text of Scripture to articulate a doctrine of the perseverance of the saints. In the same way that works cannot save sinners, neither can works compromise salvation. Any other view, says Mackintosh, undermines the magnitude of Christ’s death and resurrection.
Final Perseverance: What Is It? avoids theological abstraction. Mackintosh speaks from experience—the best vantage point for understanding the grace he professes.
Top Highlights
“law-works are such as are done in order to get life: life-works are the genuine fruits of life possessed” (Page 16)
“There is a very material difference between law-works and life-works” (Page 15)
“He has a claim founded on creation, and a claim founded on redemption. It is to the latter of these two that the apostle refers. The false teachers will not merely deny the Lord that made them, but even the Lord that bought them.” (Page 17)
“The Christian has to struggle with sin; but struggling with it and wallowing in it are two totally different ideas.” (Page 11)
“give unto my sheep eternal (not temporary or conditional) life, and they shall never perish.’” (Page 8)
Man’s complete ruin in sin, and God’s perfect remedy in Christ, are fully, clearly, and often strikingly presented [in Mackintosh’s writings].
—Andrew Miller, a leader of the Plymouth Brethren movement
- Title: Final Perseverance: What is it?
- Author: C. H. Mackintosh
- Series: C. H. Mackintosh Collection
- Publisher: Loizeaux Brothers Publications
- Pages: 24
