A53688:1047
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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3. (I say that) it is not the Doctrine of Christ, but his Spirit principally, that he is here said to give as Water: and that this is not promised to make men partakers of Eternal Life, if in the interim they be careful to preserve it; but to preserve them to it, and to give them that Care, which, as a Grace, is needful thereunto. The plain intendment of the Promise is, that by the water they drink they shall be kept and preserved in the Life, whereof they are made partakers, unto the fullness and perfection of it; which preservation by the parenthesis (if any be careful in the interim to preserve it) is directly ⟨p. 209⟩taken away from the Spirit that Christ promiseth, and assigned to mens own care, even in contradistinction to all the benefits, which they receive by him, being so bestowed on them. The difference then here between Jesus Christ, and Mr Goodwin, is this; Christ saith, the Water that he shall give, will be a well springing up to Everlasting Life; Mr Goodwin, That it is the Care of men to preserve themselves, that produces that Effect.
3. (I say that) it is not the Doctrine of Christ, but his Spirit principally, that he is here said to give as Water: and that this is not promised to make men partakers of Eternall Life, if in the interim they be carefull to preserve it; but to preserve them to it, and to give them that Care, which, as a Grace, is needfull thereunto. The plaine intendment of the Promise is, that by the water they drinke they shall be kept and preserved in the Life, whereof they are made partakers, unto the fulnesse and perfection of it; which preservation by the parenthesis (if any be carefull in the interim to preserve it) is directly ⟨p. 209⟩taken away from the Spirit that Christ promiseth, and assigned to mens owne care, even in contradistinction to all the benefits, which they receive by him, being so bestowed on them. The difference then here between Jesus Christ, and Mr Goodwin, is this; Christ saith, the Water that he shall give, will be a well springing up to Everlasting Life; Mr Goodwin, That it is the Care of men to preserve themselves, that produces that Effect.