A53688:1606
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. I was not to choose what Objections M. Goodwin should answer, nor had the framing of them, which he chose to deal withal: and therefore must be contented with them, as he is pleased to afford them to us; Only if I may be allowed to speak in this case, and I know I have the consent of many concerned in it, I should somewhat otherwise frame this Objection or Answer:being partly persuaded, that M. Goodwin did not find it, but framed it himself, into the shape wherein it here appears. I say then, that the Saints of God sin out of Infirmity only, not maliciously, nor dedita opera in cool blood, nor with their whole hearts, but purely upon the account of the weakness of their graces, being overpowered by the strength of Temptation, and therefore cannot so perpetrate the works of the flesh, and in such a way as must according ⟨p. 346⟩to the tenor of the Covenant wherein they walk with God, not only deserve rejection and damnation, but also be Absolutely and Indispensably exclusive of them, from the Kingdom of God. What Mr Goodwin hath drawn forth to take off, in any measure, the Truth of this Assertion, shall be considered. He says then,
Ans. I was not to choose what Objections M. Goodwin should answer, nor had the framing of them, which he chose to deale withall: and therefore must be contented with them, as he is pleased to afford them to us; Only if I may be allowed to speake in this case, and I know I have the consent of many concern'd in it, I should somewhat otherwise frame this Objection or Answer:being partly perswaded, that M. Goodwin did not find it, but framed it himselfe, into the shape wherein it here appears. I say then, that the Saints of God sin out of Infirmity only, not malitiously, nor dedita opera in coole bloud, nor with their whole hearts, but purely upon the account of the weakenesse of their graces, being overpowred by the strength of Temptation, and therefore cannot so perpetrate the workes of the flesh, and in such a way as must according ⟨p. 346⟩to the tenour of the Covenant wherein they walke with God, not only deserve rejection and damnation, but also be Absolutely and Indispensably exclusive of them, from the Kingdome of God. What Mr Goodwin hath drawne forth to take off, in any measure, the Truth of this Assertion, shall be considered. He sayes then,