A53688:1589
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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Secondly, It hath sufficiently been proved, that Believers have a promise, yea many promises, to be kept by the power of God, from all, and any such sin, or any such circumstance of sin, or continuance in sin, as is wholly inconsistent with Believing, and that therefore they shall be preserved in Believing.
Secondly, It hath sufficiently been proved, that Believers have a promise, yea many promises, to be kept by the power of God, from all, and any such sinne, or any such circumstance of sinne, or continuance in sinne, as is wholly inconsistent with Believing, and that therefore they shall be preserved in Believing.
Thirdly, Upon our calling the examination of the proofs of this assertion to an account, we have found them to be made up, of trivial exceptions, and sophistical suppositions, confident beggings, and cravings of the things under contest and debate, (all the endeavours to prove the promises of Perseverance to be conditional, having also involved in them, an absolute contradiction to the Truth, and to themselves) no way sufficient to evince, that the promises and work of Gods grace, are suspended upon any conditions in men whatsoever.
Thirdly, Upon our calling the examination of the proofes of this assertion to an account, we have found them to be made up, of triviall exceptions, and sophisticall suppositions, confident beggings, and cravings of the things under contest and debate, (all the endeavours to prove the promises of Perseverance to be conditionall, having also involved in them, an absolute contradiction to the Truth, and to themselves) no way sufficient to evince, that the promises and work of Gods grace, are suspended upon any conditions in men whatsoever.
And Fourthly, We say that the intrusion of this vain Hypothesis, that believers should continue so, under the consideration here intimated by you of sin, when the main of the Doctrine contended for, consists in a full and plain denial that they can, or shall fall under them (according to the import of