A53688:1050
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. The sum of this Answer is; that the Life here spoken of, and promised, is not that Spiritual life, whereof we are here made partakers, but eternal life, which is for to come, which, when any attain, they shall never fail in, or fall from; but whether they may or shall attain it or no, here is nothing spoken. But here is no notice taken, of the main opposition insisted on by our Saviour, between the supplies of the Spirit for life Eternal, which fail not, nor suffers them to thirst, to whom they are given, and the supplies of natural life, by Elementary water, notwithstanding which, they, who are made partakers thereof, do in a short season, come to a total want of it again. Instead of Answers to our Argument from this place, we meet with nothing but perpetual diversions from the whole scope and intendment of it, and at last are told, that the Promise signifies only, that men should not want Grace, when they come to Heaven.
Ans, 1. The summe of this Answer is; that the Life here spoken of, and promised, is not that Spirituall life, whereof we are here made partakers, but eternall life, which is for to come, which, when any attaine, they shall never faile in, or fall from; but whether they may or shall attaine it or no, here is nothing spoken. But here is no notice taken, of the maine opposition insisted on by our Saviour, between the supplies of the Spirit for life Eternall, which faile not, nor suffers them to thirst, to whom they are given, and the supplies of naturall life, by Elementary water, notwithstanding which, they, who are made partakers thereof, doe in a short season, come to a totall want of it againe. Instead of Answers to our Argument from this place, we meet with nothing but perpetuall diversions from the whole scope and intendment of it, and at last are told, that the Promise signifies only, that men should not want Grace, when they come to Heaven.
2. To prove that there is no Promise of any abiding spiritual Life here, those words they shall never thirst, are produced; That we shall have our life continued to the full enjoyment of it unto eternity, because such are the supplies of the Spirit bestowed on us, that we shall never thirst, is the Argument of our Saviour: That there is no such life promised, or here to be attained, because in it we shall not thirst, is Mr Goodwins.