A53688:1623
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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Thirdly, The non-restauration of persons cast out of communion, by the Church, to their place in the Kingdom of God, but upon Repentance, holds proportion with what was spoken before upon exclusion, The Repentance intended is such, as is necessary for the satisfaction of the Church, as to its expressness and being known; yet we grant withal, that all sins whatever without Repentance, in that kind and degree, that is appointed and accepted of God, are exclusive of the Kingdom of God; and we do much wonder that M. Goodwin to the Text Rom. 8. 1. should add, whether they repent or not, which is not only beyond the sense of what went before, but directly contrary to that which follows after, that walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit; not to repent of sin, is, doubtless to walk after the flesh, and no one of them who are freed from condemnation in Christ, doth good and sinneth not; The words we confess, are not the condition in the intention of God, on which their non-condemnation is suspended, but yet they are a description infallible of them, who through Grace are made partakers of it. We say then, that Believers may so fall, as that being on that account, rejected from the communion of the Church, so as not to be restored, but upon the evidence of their Repentance (and we say that Repentance is required for all sins, or ⟨p. 350⟩men cannot be saved, wondering what Mr Goodwin according to his principles intends by the addition to the Text of Rom. 8. 1. unless it be, that no man stands in need of Repentance, unless he have cast off all Faith and interest in God; a most Anti-evangelical assertion) and yet not commit such sins, as whereby their Faith must needs be wholly lost.
Thirdly, The non-restauration of persons cast out of communion, by the Church, to their place in the Kingdome of God, but upon Repentance, holds proportion with what was spoken before upon exclusion, The Repentance intended is such, as is necessary for the satisfaction of the Church, as to its expressenesse and being known; yet we grant withall, that all sinnes whatever without Repentance, in that kind and degree, that is appointed and accepted of God, are exclusive of the Kingdome of God; and we doe much wonder that M. Goodwin to the Text