A53688:1520
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. 1Because of all Arguments whatever used against the Truth we assert, this seems to me to wear the best colours on its back, and to have its face best painted viz. with that plea of the Inconsistency of sin with the Favour and acceptation of God seeming to have a tendency to caution Believers in their ways and walkings, to be more careful in watching against Temptations, I shall more largely insist on what the Lord hath been pleased to reveal concerning the sins & failings of such as he is yet pleased to accept in a covenant of Mercy, whom though he chastens and sorely rebukes, yet he gives not their Souls over unto death, nor takes his Loving kindness from them forever; now because the inside & strength of this Objection, consists in a comparison instituted between the sins of Believers, and the sins of unregenerate Persons, which being laid in the balance are found of equal burdensomenes unto God, & therefore are in expectance of a like Reward from him, I shall in the first place, before I come in particular to answer the Argument proposed, manifest the difference that is between Regenerate persons, and Unregenerate in their sinning, and consequently also between their sins, wherein such principles shall be laid down and proved, as may with an easy Application remove all that is added in the farther carrying on, and endeavoured vindication of the Argument in hand.
Ans. 1Because of all Arguments whatever used against the Truth we assert, this seemes to me to weare the best colours on its back, and to have its face best painted viz. with that plea of the Inconsistency of sinne with the Favour and acceptation of God seeming to have a tendency to caution Believers in their wayes and walkings, to be more carefull in watching against Temptations, I shall more largely insist on what the Lord hath been pleased to reveale concerning the sinnes & failings of such as he is yet pleased to accept in a covenant of Mercy, whom though he chastens and sorely rebukes, yet he gives not their Soules over unto death, nor takes his Loving kindnesse from them forever; now because the inside & strength of this Objection, consists in a comparison instituted between the sinnes of Believers, and the sinnes of unregenerate Persons, which being laid in the ballance are found of equall burdensomenes unto God, & therefore are in expectance of a like Reward from him, I shall in the first place, before I come in particular to answer the Argument proposed, manifest the difference that is between Regenerate persons, and Unregenerate in their sinning, and consequently also between their sinnes, wherein such principles shall be layd downe and proved, as may with an easy Application remove all that is added in the farther carrying on, and endeavoured vindication of the Argument in hand.