Can a born-again believer lose their salvation?

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“I am the Lord, I charge not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.”-
Malachi. 3:6.

“I am God I change not; therefore ye
sons of Jacob are not consumed.”

Now, who are “the sons of Jacob,” who
can rejoice in an immutable God?

1. First, they are the sons of God’s election; for it is written, “Jacob have I
loved, and Esau have I hated, the children being not yet born, neither
having done good nor evil.” It was written, “The elder shall serve the
younger.” “The sons of Jacob”
“Are the sons of God’s election,
Who through sovereign grace believe;
By eternal destination
Grace and glory they receive.”
God’s elect are here meant by “the sons of Jacob,”-those whom he
foreknew and fore-ordained to everlasting salvation.


2. By “the sons of Jacob” are meant, in the second place, persons who
enjoy peculiar rights and titles. Jacob, you know, had no rights by birth;
but he soon acquired them. He changed a mess of pottage with his brother
Esau, and thus gained the birthright. I do not justify the means; but he did
also obtain the blessing, and so acquired peculiar rights. By “the sons of
Jacob” here, are meant persons who have peculiar rights and titles. Unto
them that believe, he hath given the right and power to become sons of
God. They have an interest in the blood of Christ; they have a right to
“enter in through the gates into the city-” they have a title to eternal
honors; they have a promise to everlasting glory; they have a right to call
themselves sons of God Oh! there are peculiar rights and privileges
belonging to the a sons of Jacob.”

CHS

 

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To return from this not unnecessary digression,​

that which we have now in agitation, is the secret will of​

God, which we have before unfolded, and this it is that we​

charge the Arminians for affirming, that it may be resisted ;​

that is, that God may fail in his purposes, come short of​

what he earnestly intendeth ; or be frustrated of his aim
and end : as if he should determinately resolve the faith and​

salvation of any man, it is in the power of that man, to​

make void his determination, and not believe, and not be​

saved. Now it is only in cases of this nature, wherein our​

own free-wills have an interest, that they thus limit and circumscribe
thepower of the Most High: in other things, they​

grant his omnipotence to be of no less extent than others