A53688:1045
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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Ans. 1. That these words are only an Assertion of the excellency and desirableness of that eternal life, which Christ would give, above the natural, that the Woman sued to sustain, and that this appears from the Context, is said indeed, but no more. It is true, our Saviour doth divert the thoughts of the Woman, from the natural life, and care for provision about it, with an insinuation of a better life to be attained: but is this all he doth, or is this the intendment of the words under consideration? Doth not the main of the opposition, or difference which at present he speaks unto, lye in the supplies, that are given for the two kinds of Life, whereof he speaks? The Water he tells her, which she drew from that Well, by which he fate, for the supply of her natural life, was such, that after her drinking of it, she should quickly return to the same Condition of thirst, as formerly before she drank of it; But that which he gave, was such, as that who ever drank of it, should thirst no more, but be certainly preserved in, and unto the full fruition of that Life, whereof it is the means and supply. The opposition is not between the lives continued, but the mean of consolation, and its efficacy.
Ans. 1. That these words are only an Assertion of the excellency and desireablenesse of that eternall life, which Christ would give, above the naturall, that the Woman sued to sustaine, and that this appears from the Context, is said indeed, but no more. It is true, our Saviour doth divert the thoughts of the Woman, from the naturall life, and care for provision about it, with an insinuation of a better life to be attained: but is this all he doth, or is this the intendment of the words under consideration? Doth not the maine of the opposition, or difference which at present he speakes unto, lye in the supplies, that are given for the two kinds of Life, whereof he speakes? The Water he tells her, which she drew from that Well, by which he fate, for the supply of her naturall life, was such, that after her drinking of it, she should quickly returne to the same Condition of thirst, as formerly before she drank of it; But that which he gave, was such, as that who ever drank of it, should thirst no more, but be certainely preserved in, and unto the full fruition of that Life, whereof it is the meanes and supply. The opposition is not between the lives continued, but the meane of consolation, and its efficacy.