A53688:1092
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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2. For that supposal of his, of their proving wicked afterwards to an inconsistency with believing, it hath often been corrected for a sturdy Beggar, and sent away grumbling and hungry, and, were it not for pure necessity, would never once be owned any more by its Master; Christ Intercedes not for Believers, that they may Persevere in the Faith upon such foolish supposals, whose opposite is Continuance in the Faith, and so is coincident with the thing it self interceded for; To Intercede that they may continue Believing, is, to Intercede that they may never be so wicked, as Mr Goodwin supposeth they may be. The end of Christs Intercession for the Saints asserted, is, that they may never wickedly depart from God; Doth Mr Goodwin indeed ⟨p. 221⟩take this to be the tenor of the Doctrine he opposeth, and of the Argument which he undertakes to Answer? viz. That the Faith of Believers, and the continuance of that, is interceded for, without any reference to the work of Faith in Gospel Obedience, and communion with God in Christ? Or if he thinks not so, why doth he so often insist on this calumnious evasion?
2. For that supposall of his, of their proving wicked afterwards to an inconsistency with believing, it hath often been corrected for a sturdy Begger, and sent away grumbling and hungry, and, were it not for pure necessity, would never once be owned any more by its Master; Christ Intercedes not for Believers, that they may Persevere in the Faith upon such foolish supposalls, whose opposite is Continuance in the Faith, and so is coincident with the thing it selfe interceded for; To Intercede that they may continue Believing, is, to Intercede that they may never be so wicked, as Mr Goodwin supposeth they may be. The end of Christs Intercession for the Saints asserted, is, that they may never wickedly depart from God; Doth Mr Goodwin indeed ⟨p. 221⟩take this to be the tenor of the Doctrine he opposeth, and of the Argument which he undertakes to Answer? viz. That the Faith of Believers, and the continuance of that, is interceded for, without any reference to the worke of Faith in Gospell Obedience, and communion with God in Christ? Or if he thinks not so, why doth he so often insist on this calumnious evasion?