A53688:1518
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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MR Goodwin's Fifth Argument for the Saints Apostasy, 1is taken from the Consideration of the sins which they have fallen into, or possibly may so do, and it is thus proposed. Sect. 20.
MR Goodwin's Fift Argument for the Saints Apostacy, 1is taken from the Consideration of the sinnes which they have fallen into, or possibly may so do, and it is thus proposed. Sect. 20.
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They who are in a capacity, or possibility of perpetrating the works of the flesh, are in a possibility of perishing, and consequently in a possibility of falling away, and that finally from the Grace and favour of God, in case they be in an estate of this Grace and Favour at the present; But the Saints, or true Believers are in a possibility of perpetrating the works of the flesh, and therefore also they are in a possibility of perishing, and so of falling away from the Grace and Favour of God, wherein at present they stand. The Major Proposition of this Argument, to wit, They who are in a possibility of perpetrating, or customarily acting the works of the Flesh, are in a possibility of perishing, is clearly proved from all such Scriptures which exclude all workers of iniquity, and fulfillers of the Lusts of the flesh from the Kingdom of God; of which sort are many; Of the which saith the Apostle, speaking of the Lusts of the flesh, Adultery, Fornication, &c. I tell you, as I have also told you in times past, that they who do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God; so again, For this ye know, that no Whoremonger or unclean person, nor Covetous man, who is an Idolator, hath any Inheritance of the Kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the wrath of Cod upon the Children of disobedience. yet again, know ye not that the nnrighteous shall never inherit the Kingdom of God? Be not deceived, neither Fornicators, nor Idolaters shall inherit the Kingdom of God; from such passages as these, which are very frequent in the Scriptures, it is as clear as the light of the Sun at noon-day, That they who may possibly commit such sins as those specified, Adultery, Fornication, Idolatry, may as possibly perish and be for ever excluded the Kingdom of God.