A53688:1630
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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2. They are so, or may be so, for their amendment, not for their destruction. That separation for a season being an expression of as much Love and tenderness to them in Christ as his joining of them to the Body was from whence they are so separated. And
2. They are so, or may be so, for their amendment, not for their destruction. That separation for a season being an expression of as much Love and tendernesse to them in Christ as his joyning of them to the Body was from whence they are so separated. And
3. This makes not at all to the impairing of the true completeness of the mystical Body of Christ, and the perfection of its parts; for as in particular visible bodies of Christ there may be, and are dead members which have no place in the body, but are as excrescencies in the vine, and yet the body is not rendered monstrous by them; so a true member may be removed and the Body not be maimed in the least. The member though perhaps, from any such visible body, for a season and yet the true Spiritual sick and pining, continuing a member thereof still; Now there is nothing of all this that will in any measure agree, to the plucking off a member from the Mystical Body of Christ, whereof alone we speak. If any should be so separated, it must not only be to his present actual enjoyment of Union, but to the loss of his Spirit also, and with him of all right and title, plea, or claim whatever, to any interest therein; Neither is it possible that it should be a means for the correction and amendment of such an one; it lying in a direct tendency to inevitable destruction; separation from all interest ⟨p. 352⟩in Christ can look no other way; so that still the uncouthness of such a procedure abideth.
3. This makes not at all to the impairing of the true compleatnesse of the mysticall Body of Christ, and the perfection of its parts; for as in particular visible bodyes of Christ there may be, and are dead members which have no place in the body, but are as excressencyes in the vine, and yet the body is not rendred monstrous by them; so a true member may be removed and the Body not be maimed in the least. The member though perhaps, from any such visible body, for a season and yet the true Spirituall sicke and pineing, continuing a member thereof still; Now there is nothing of all this that will in any measure agree, to the plucking off a member from the Mysticall Body of Christ, whereof alone we speake. If any should be so separated, it must not only bee to his present actuall enjoyment of Union, but to the losse of his Spirit also, and with him of all right and title, plea, or claime whatever, to any interest therein; Neither is it possible that it should be a meanes for the correction and amendment of such an one; it lying in a direct tendency to inevitable destruction; separation from all interest