A53688:1613
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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If by sinning out of malice they mean sinning with deliberation, with plotting,1 and contriving the methods and means of their sinning, sinning against Judgement, against the dictates of conscience (and what they should mean by sinning out of malice but sinning upon such terms as these I understand not) certain it is that true Believers may so sin out of malice, or at least such as were true Believers before such sinning, and this our Adversaries them selves confess.
If by sinning out of malice they meane sinning with deliberation, with plotting,1 and contriving the methods and meanes of their sinning, sinning against Judgement, against the dictates of conscience (and what they should meane by sining out of malice but sinning upon such tearmes as these I understand not) certaine it is that true Believers may so sinne out of malice, or at least such as were true Believers before such sining, and this our Adversaries them selves confesse.
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Ans. All this falls heavy on the shoulders, (as it is supposed) of poor David, and yet we think it evident, that God took not his holy Spirit from him, but that his Covenant continued with him, ordered in all things and sure, and that sin had not dominion over him. The reasons of this persuasion of ours concerning him, shall farther be insisted on, when we come to the consideration of his case in particular, in the mean time I confess the dreadful falls of some of the Saints of God, are rather to be bewailed than aggravated; and the riches of Gods Grace in their recovery, to be admired than searched into: yet we say,
Ans. All this falles heavy on the shoulders, (as it is supposed) of poore David, and yet we think it evident, that God tooke not his holy Spirit from him, but that his Covenant continued with him, ordered in all things and sure, and that sinne had not dominion over him. The reasons of this perswasion of ours concerning him, shall farther be insisted on, when we come to the consideration of his case in particular, in the meane time I confesse the dreadfnll falls of some of the Saints of God, are rather to be bewailed than aggravated; and the riches of Gods Grace in their recovery, to be admired than searcht into: yet we say,