A53688:1585
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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I cannot see then,1 to what end and purpose the whole ensuing discourse from the beginning of this Argument to the end of the 21. Sect. is. It is acknowledged that all those places do concern Believers; The intendment of the Holy Ghost in them, being to discover to them, the nature of the sin specified, and the end of the committing of them, in the way intended, and that God purposes to proceed according to the importance of what is threatened to those sins, so committed, with all that do them, that so they may walk watchfully, and carefully avoiding not only those things themselves, but all the ways and means leading to them, (though if any one of them sin, any of those sins without the deadly attendants of them mentioned in Scripture, they have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the Righteous) but that from thence it may be inferred, that Believers may, and some do so sin, and that God intends as it is expressed, to destroy them if they so do, when he hath promised they shall never do so, is a very weak and ridiculous Argumentation: They are a medium of acquainting them with the desert of sin, the tenor of the Law, to them that are under it, and the riches of Grace in their deliverance.
I cannot see then,1 to what end and purpose the whole ensuing discourse from the beginning of this Argument to the end of the 21. Sect. is. It is acknowledged that all those places doe concerne Believers; The intendment of the Holy Ghost in them, being to discover to them, the nature of the sinne specified, and the end of the committing of them, in the way intended, and that God purposes to proceed according to the importance of what is threatned to those sinnes, so committed, with all that doe them, that so they may walk watchfully, and carefully avoiding not only those things themselves, but all the wayes and meanes leading to them, (though if any one of them sinne, any of those sinnes without the deadly attendants of them mentioned in Scripture, they have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the Righteous) but that from thence it may be inferred, that Believers may, and some doe so sinne, and that God intends as it is expressed, to destroy them if they so doe, when he hath promised they shall never doe so, is a very weake and ridiculous Argumentation: They are a medium of acquainting them with the desert of sin, the tenour of the Law, to them that are under it, and the riches of Grace in their deliverance.