A53688:1641
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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Farther the wickedness of this Apprehension,1 that Christ should loose any of those who are true, and living members of his Mystical body, is aggravated upon the account of that state and condition, whereinto he parts with them. They being thereby made members of Satan, and his Kingdom; God and the Devil so interchanging Children to the great dishonour and reproach of his name: to his M. Goodwin replies, in the 28. Section.
Farther the wickednesse of this Apprehension,1 that Christ should loose any of those who are true, and living members of his Mysticall body, is aggravated upon the accovnt of that state and condition, whereinto he parts with them. They being thereby made members of Sathan, and his Kingdome; God and the Divell so interchanging Children to the great dishonour and reproach of his name: to his M. Goodwin replyes, in the 28. Section.
- 1§. 43.
For the interchange of members between Christ and Satan, the Scripture presenteth it, as a thing possible, yea as frequent and ordinary, know ye not (saith the Apostle) that your Bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot; in the original it is, [Greek or Hebrew], &c. i. e. taking away the members of Christ, shall I make them, &c. meaning that true Believers who only are the members of Christ disrelate themselves to him, cease to be members of his body, whilst they live in a course of whoredom and Adultery, and make themselves members of another far different relation, viz. of those harlots with whom they will fully commit sin, and consequently, in such a sense of the Devil.
For the interchange of members between Christ and Sathan, the Scripture presenteth it, as a thing possible, yea as frequent and ordinary, know ye not (saith the Apostle) that your Bodyes are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot; in the originall it is, , &c. i. e. taking away the members of Christ, shall I make them, &c. meaning that true Believers who only are the members of Christ disrelate themselves to him, cease to be members of his body, whilst they live in a course of whoredome and Adultery, and make themselves members of another far different relation, viz. of those harlots with whom they will fully commit sinne, and consequently, in such a sence of the Divell.