A53688:1058
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. Which, upon the matter, is all one, as if he had said, Christ saith indeed, that the water which he gives, shall spring up unto Everlasting Life, and wholly remove that Thirst, which is comprehensive of all interveniences, that might hinder it, (as God said to Adam, In the day thou eatest of that fruit, thou shalt dye) but he knew full well, that it might otherwise come to pass: which, whether it doth not amount to a calling of his Truth, and credit in his Word and Promises, into question, deserves (as I suppose) Mr Goodwins serious consideration. To conclude then, our Saviour hath assured us, that the Living Water with he gives us, shall take away such Thirst, all such total want of Grace ⟨p. 211⟩and Spirit, (be it to be brought about, not by this or that means, but by what means soever) as should cause us to come short of eternal life with himself, which we shall look upon, as a Promise of the Saints Perseverance in Faith, notwithstanding all the Exceptions, which as yet to the contrary hath been produced.
Ans. Which, upon the matter, is all one, as if he had said, Christ saith indeed, that the water which he gives, shall spring up unto Everlasting Life, and wholly remove that Thirst, which is comprehensive of all interveniences, that might hinder it, (as God said to Adam, In the day thou eatest of that fruit, thou shalt dye) but he knew full well, that it might otherwise come to passe: which, whether it doth not amount to a calling of his Truth, and credit in his Word and Promises, into question, deserves (as I suppose) Mr Goodwins serious consideration. To conclude then, our Saviour hath assured us, that the Living Water wich he gives us, shall take away such Thirst, all such totall want of Grace ⟨p. 211⟩and Spirit, (be it to be brought about, not by this or that meanes, but by what meanes soever) as should cause us to come short of eternall life with himselfe, which we shall look upon, as a Promise of the Saints Perseverance in Faith, notwithstanding all the Exceptions, which as yet to the contrary hath been produced.