A53688:1284
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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I might then (as I said) save my self the labour of farther engaging,1 for the casting down of this Fabric, built on the sandy foundations of falsehood, and mistake. But because something may fall in, of that which followeth, more indeed to the purpose, than an orderly pursuit of these Assertions laid down in the entrance would require, that may more directly rise up against the cause in whose defence I am engaged, I shall consider the whole ⟨p. 269⟩ensuing Discourse which without doubt will administer farther occasion for the Illustration or Confirmation of the Truth in hand; He proceeds then,
I might then (as I said) save my selfe the labour of farther ingaging,1 for the casting downe of this Fabricke, built on the sandy foundations of falsehood, and mistake. But because something may fall in, of that which followeth, more indeed to the purpose, than an orderly pursuit of these Assertions laid downe in the entrance would require, that may more directly rise up against the cause in whose defence I am ingaged, I shall consider the whole ⟨p. 269⟩ensuing Discourse which without doubt will administer farther occasion for the Illustratihn or Confirmation of the Truth in hand; He proceeds then,
- 1§. 13.
The reason of the Minor is,1 because a certain knowledge and persuasion, that God will by an irresistible hand of power, preserve a man, in the state of Grace, how desperately careless, negligent or wicked so ever he shall be, clearly dissolves the usefulness, and necessity of all other means whatsoever, in reference to this end. If I know certainly that the corn which I have sown in my field will whether I wake or sleep grow and prosper, would it not be a very impertinent address, for any man to come to me, & admonish me in a serious & grave manner, to take heed, I sleep not, but keep my self waking, least my corn should not grow, or prosper, or that it may grow & prosper, if my corn grows, thrives, & prospers, by the irresistible hand of God, by the course of a Natural & standing providence, my watchfulness in order to a procurement of these things is absolutely vain &c.