A53688:1612
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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Fourthly we say that true Believers cannot be said to walk according to the flesh, to do the works of the flesh, to do the Lusts and desires of the flesh, which the Holy Ghost so cautions them against, which as Mr Goodwin observes are none of them charged upon true Believers, but only such persons as are enemies of God, and Children of wrath; so that those expressions hold out to Believers only what they ought to avoid in the use of the means which God graciously affords them, and do not discover any thing of the will of God, that he will suffer them, contrary to his many Faithful Promises to fall into them. And so the close of this Discourse is contrary to the beginning; M. Goodwin granting that true Believers cannot fall into these sins, but only such as are enemies to God; and yet he hath no way to prove that true Believers may cease to be so, but because they may fall into these sins, which that they may do, he here eminently denies. Wherefore he adds▪
Fourthly we say that true Believers cannot be said to walke according to the flesh, to do the workes of the flesh, to do the Lusts and desires of the flesh, which the Holy Ghost so cautions them against, which as Mr Goodwin observes are none of them charged upon true Believers, but only such persons as are enemyes of God, and Children of wrath; so that those expressions hold out to Believers only what they ought to avoid in the use of the meanes which God graciously affords them, and do not discover any thing of the will of God, that he will suffer them, contrary to his many Faithfull Promises to fall into them. And so the close of this Discourse is contrary to the beginning; M. Goodwin granting that true Believers cannot fall into these sinnes, but only such as are enemies to God; and yet he hath no way to prove that true Believers may cease to be so, but because they may fall into these sinnes, which that they may do, he here eminently denyes. Wherefore he adds▪
If by sinning out of malice they mean sinning with deliberation, with plotting,1