A53688:1100
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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but whether Believers shall not be preserved from such looseness & profaneness, as would make a total separation between God and them; and if God intercedes, as is added in the close, that nothing may make him an enemy to us, certainly he must Intercede that no sin may do it; For indeed, sin is something in this business; and this must be, as to the keeping us from it; I suppose no man thinks any thing in all this Discourse of Mr Goodwin's, to look like the least attempt of proof, that Christ doth not Intercede for the Perseverance of Saints. Neither hath he confidence enough positively to deny it, & therefore spends his whole Discourse hereabout in evasions, and diversions. Let it be directly denied, that Christ doth not intend, that the Faith of Believers may not fail, that his Saints may be preserved, and Saved; and we know what we have to apply our selves unto: And if the contrary cannot be proved, the Saints know, what they have to trust unto, that they may no longer lean on that which will yield them no supportment. If this will not be, let it on the other hand be granted, that he doth so intercede; for, de unoquoque affirmare, aut negare, verum est. As to this then he proceeds
but whether Believers shall not be preserved from such loosenesse & profanenesse, as would make a totall separation between God and them; and if God intercedes, as is added in the close, that nothing may make him an enemy to us, certainely he must Intercede that no sinne may do it; For indeed, sinne is something in this businesse; and this must be, as to the keeping us from it; I suppose no man thinks any thing in all this Discourse of Mr Goodwin's, to looke like the least attempt of proofe, that Christ doth not Intercede for the Perseverance of Saints. Neither hath he confidence enough positively to deny it, & therefore spends his whole Discourse hereabout in evasions, and diversions. Let it be directly denyed, that Christ doth not intend, that the Faith of Believers may not faile, that his Saints may be preserved, and Saved; and we know what we have to apply our selves unto: And if the contrary cannot be proved, the Saints know, what they have to trust unto, that they may no longer leane on that which will yeild them no supportment. If this will not be, let it on the other hand be granted, that he doth so intercede; for, de unoquoque affirmare, aut negare, verum est. As to this then he proceeds