A53688:1383
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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If Absolute, that is, so far as that it shall infallibly be accomplished, not so depending on any thing that in respect of the Event may, or may not be, as to be left at uncertainty for its fulfilling, It is all that is of us desired. If it shall be said that it is Conditional, I desire that the Condition from whence it is so said to be, may be assigned; If it shall be said (as tis) that it is, in case they willingly suffer not themselves to be overcome of Temptations; I ask whether the strength and Ability that God affords to his Saints to resist Temptations, be not in the strengthening and confirming their Wills against them? And if so, whether this Promise so interpreted doth not resolve it self into this proposition, I will not suffer my Saints to be overborne by Temptations, above the strength I will give them to bear, provided they be not pressed with Temptations above the strength I give unto thee. The Promise then is Absolute, either that no Temptations shall befall Believers above that they have received, or that strength not to be overcome, shall be afresh communicated to them upon the assaults of any new Temptations.
If Absolute, that is, so farre as that it shall infallibly be accomplished, not so depending on any thing that in respect of the Event may, or may not be, as to be left at uncertainty for its fulfilling, It is all that is of us desired. If it shall be said that it is Conditionall, I desire that the Condition from whence it is so said to be, may be assigned; If it shall be said (as tis) that it is, in case they willingly suffer not themselves to be overcome of Temptations; I aske whether the strength and Ability that God affords to his Saints to resist Temptations, be not in the strengthning and confirming their Wills against them? And if so, whether this Promise so interpreted doth not resolve it selfe into this proposition, I will not suffer my Saints to be overborne by Temptations, above the strength I will give them to beare, provided they be not pressed with Temptations above the strength I give unto the. The Promise then is Absolute, either that no Temptations shall befall Believers above that they have received, or that strength not to be overcome, shall be afresh communicated to them upon the assaultes of any new Temptations.