A53688:1624
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, There's a twofold Right and Title to the Kingdom of God; a Right and Title by the profession of a true Faith to the external Kingdom of God, in regard of its outward Administration, and a Right and Title to the Eternal Kingdom of God by the possession of a true Faith in Christ: The former, as it is taken for jus in re, believers may loose for a season; though they may not in respect of a remote, original, fundamental Root which abides; the latter they never loose, nor forfeit: We say also that repentance for sin being a thing promised of God, for those that come to him in Christ, upon the account of the engagement of his Grace, for the Perseverance of Believers; All such fallers into sin, shall certainly return to the Lord by Repentance, who heals their back-slidings, which Mr Goodwin hath not been able to disprove; Of whose Arguments, and his endeavours to vindicate them from exceptions, this is the chief.
Fourthly, There's a twofold Right and Title to the Kingdome of God; a Right and Title by the profession of a true Faith to the externall Kingdome of God, in regard of its outward Administration, and a Right and Title to the Eternall Kingdome of God by the possession of a true Faith in Christ: The former, as it is taken for jus in re, believers may loose for a season; though they may not in respect of a remote, originall, fundamentall Root which abides; the latter they never loose, nor forfeite: We say also that repentance for sinne being a thing promised of God, for those that come to him in Christ, upon the account of the ingagement of his Grace, for the Perseverance of Believers; All such fallers into sinne, shall certainly return to the Lord by Repentance, who heales their back-slidings, which Mr Goodwin hath not been able to disprove; Of whose Arguments, and his endeavours to vindicate them from exceptions, this is the chiefe.
But yet there being two or three things,1 that M. Goodwin is pleased to add to what went before, as objections against his doctrine in general, though not of this last Arguments concernment, any more than of any others he makes use of, because there are in them Considerations of good advantage to the Truth in hand, I shall a little insist upon them, before I proceed with my intended discourse.