A53688:1106
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. What it is to Intercede simply and absolutely for Believers, that they may continue believing, we are not so clear in; Christ Intercedes, that they may be preserved by the power of his Father, in and through the use of those means, which he graciously affords them, and the Powerful presence of the Spirit of God with them therein; and that, not on any such absurd and foolish ⟨p. 225⟩conditions, that they may be so preserved by his Father, provided they preserve themselves, and continue Believers, on condition they continue to believe; and, if this be of a vile and unworthy import, the Gospel is so too, and one of the most eminent Graces, that is inwrapped in the New Covenant, is so too.
2. What it is to Intercede simply and absolutely for Believers, that they may continue believing, we are not so cleare in; Christ Intercedes, that they may be preserved by the power of his Father, in and through the use of those meanes, which he graciously affords them, and the Powerfull presence of the Spirit of God with them therein; and that, not on any such absurd and foolish ⟨p. 225⟩conditions, that they may be so preserved by his Father, provided they preserve themselves, and continue Believers, on condition they continue to believe; and, if this be of a vile and unworthy import, the Gospell is so too, and one of the most eminent Graces, that is inwrapped in the New Covenant, is so too.
What there is farther in M. Goodwin Sect. 34. Pag. 249, 250. unto this Argument, 1is either a mere repetition of what was spoken before, or a pressing of Consequences upon such supposals, as he is pleased to make, concerning the Doctrine that he doth oppose; As we cannot hinder any man from making what supposals they please, and suiting inferences to them, manifesting their skill in casting down what themselves set up, so we are not in the least concerned in such Theatrical contests.