A53688:1334
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Saith he So far as Exhortations are means to produce these Acts,1 they must be Moral, for Moral causes are not capable of producing Natural or Physical effects.
Saith he So farre as Exhortatious are meanes to produce these Acts,1 they must be Morall, for Morall causes are not capable of producing Naturall or Physicall effects.
- 1§. 29.
But if Mr Goodwin think that in this Controversy, Physical and Necessary as applied to effects are [Greek or Hebrew] he is heavenly wide. Physical denotes only their being Necessary, a manner of being as to some of them which have Physically a being. The term Natural is ambiguous, and sometimes used in the one sense, sometimes in the other; sometimes it denotes that which is only, sometimes that which is in such a kind; By a Physical effect, we understand an Effect with respect to tis real existency, as by a Moral effect, an effect in respect of its Regularity. And now, why may not a Moral cause have an influence in its own kind, to the production of a Physical effect? I mean an influence suited to its own Nature and manner of operation by the way of motive and persuasion? What would you think of him that should persuade you to lift your hand above your head, to try how high you could reach, or whether your Arm were not out of joint?
But if Mr Goodwin think that in this Controversy, Physicall and Necessary as applyed to effects are 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 he is heavenly wide. Physicall denotes only their being Necessary, a manner of being as to some of them which have Physically a beeing. The tearme Naturall is ambiguous, and sometimes used in the one sence, sometimes in the other; sometimes it denotes that which is only, sometimes that which is in such a kind; By a Physicall effect, we understand an Effect with respect to tis reall existency, as by a Morall effect, an effect in respect of its Regularity. And now, why may not a Morall cause have an influence in its owne kind, to the production of a Physicall effect? I meane an influence suited to its owne Nature and manner of operation by the way of motive and perswasion? What would you think of him that should perswade you to lift your hand above your head, to try how high you could reach, or whether your Arme were not out of joynt?