A53688:1494
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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Ans. 1The incongruity of this fiction, with the Doctrine it is framed against, is so easily manifested that it will not much concern us, to consider the incongruity that the several parts of it have one with an other. For
Ans. 1The incongruity of this fiction, with the Doctrine it is framed against, is so easily manifested that it will not much concerne us, to consider the incongruity that the severall parts of it have one with an other. For
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First the whole Foundation of this fanatic Fabric, is ridiculous in it self, and ridiculously imposed on the Doctrine of Perseverance. For whereas it says not that all Saints have any comfortable Assurance of their Perseverance and so may by all Gospel ways whatever, by Promises, and Threatenings, be stirred up to the use of those means whereby Perseverance is wrought, and Assurance obtained, so it says that no one Saint in the world, ever had, can have, or was taught to expect his Perseverance or the least sense, or Assurance of it under such an uncouth supposition, as falling into & continuing in sins & Abominations; the Promises they have to assure them of their inseparable abode with God to the end, are, that he will write his Law in their hearts, & put his Fear in their inward parts; that they shall never depart from him; and they shall be kept up thereto, by the use of means suitable as appointed of God for the attaining of the end proposed, being kept by the power of God, but through Faith unto Salvation. God doth not call (nor doth the Doct: of Perseverance of the Saints, or of the stability and Unchangeableness of his Promises in Christ to Believers assert it) any to Believe that they shall never fall away from him, what sins and Rebellions so ever they fall into, neither hath he promised any such things unto them, but only that he will through his Grace preserve them in the use of means from such Rebellions, as are inconsistent with his Love and free acceptation through Christ according to the Tenor of the Covenant of Grace; so that instead of the first part of this fiction, whose inconsistency