A53688:1571
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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But he farther argues, 1If we shall affirm, that the contrary bent or motions of his will, at other times, is a sufficient proof, that when he did the evil, we speak of, he did it not with his whole will, or fullness of consent, in such a sense is a distinguishing Character betwixt men Regenerate and unregenerate, we shall bring Herod, and Pilate, and probably Judas himself into the list, of men Regenerate with a thousand more whom the Scripture knows not, under any such name or relation; viz. all those whose Judgments and consciences stand against the evil of the ways and practises wherein they walk.
But he farther argues, 1If we shall affirme, that the contrary bent or motions of his will, at other times, is a sufficient proofe, that when he did the evill, we speake of, he did it not with his whole will, or fulnesse of consent, in such a sence is a distinguishing Character betwixt men Regenerate and unregenerate, we shall bring Herod, and Pilate, and probably Judas himselfe into the list, of men Regenerate with a thousand more whom the Scripture knowes not, under any such name or relation; viz. all those whose Judgments and consciences stand against the evill of the wayes and practises wherein they walke.
- 1§. 24.
And this he proves at large to the end of the Section, in the instance of Herod, and Pilate proceeding against their own Judgements and Consciences in the killing of John and of our Saviour.
And this he proves at large to the end of the Section, in the instance of Herod, and Pilate proceeding against their owne Judgements and Consciences in the killing of John and of our Saviour.