A53688:1591
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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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 1 Joh. 3. 9. immediately to be insisted on, being preserved by the Spirit and grace of him who so works his Law in their hearts, that they shall never depart from him) is the great engine you have used in all your attempts against it, being indeed a mere begging of the thing in question.
And Fourthly, We say that the intrusion of this vaine Hypothesis, that believers should continue so, under the consideration here intimated by you of sinne, when the maine of the Doctrine contended for, consists in a full and plaine deniall that they can, or shall fall under them (according to the import of 1 Ioh. 3. 9. immediately to be insisted on, being preserved by the Spirit and grace of him who so workes his Law in their hearts, that they shall never depart from him) is the great engine you have used in all your attempts against it, being indeed a meere begging of the thing in question.
Fifthly, That there is nothing in this Doctrine, in the least, suited to turn aside the Saints of God from the holy Commandment, but that on the contrary, it is of an excellent usefulness, and effectual influence for the promotion of all manner of Godliness, in those that are truly Saints, howsoever any man may abuse it, (as any other discovery of the grace of God) turning it into Lasciviousness, hath been declared: what use hath been made of the contrary Doctrine in the world, we have hitherto had experience; only in the Pelagians, Papists, Socinians, and Arminians, and with what fruits of it they have abounded, the Church of God doth partly know. What it is like to bring forth, being now translated into another soil, or rather, having won over to it, men sometimes of another profession, is somewhat, though not altogether, yet in obeyance.