A53688:1643
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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Ans. First, for the sense of that place of the Apostle, 1 Cor. 6. 15. As far as it relates to the merit of the cause in hand, I shall have occasion to speak unto it, at large hereafter, & so shall not anticipate my self, or Reader; For the present I deny that there is the least mention made of any interchange of members between Christ and the Devil, much less of any such thing as frequent and ordinary; 'Tis true the Apostle says that he that is joined to an harlot makes his members the members of an harlot, and on that consideration, and ⟨p. 354⟩conclusion, with part of the dignity of Believers, whose persons are all the members of Christ, persuades them from the sin of Fornication; That they may so much as fall into that sin, he doth not here intimate. That men not only in respect of themselves, and their principles of sin, and proneness unto it, within, with the prevalency of Temptations, but also eventually, notwithstanding any regard or respect to other external prohibiting causes, may fall into all the sins from which they are dehorted, Mr Goodwin hath not proved as yet, nor shall I live, to see him do it.
Ans. First, for the sence of that place of the Apostle, 1 Cor. 6. 15. As farre as it relates to the merit of the cause in hand, I shall have occasion to speake unto it, at large hereafter, & so shall not anticipate my selfe, or Reader; For the present I deny that there is the least mention made of any interchange of members between Christ and the Devill, much lesse of any such thing as frequent and ordinary; 'Tis true the Apostle sayes that he that is joyned to an harlot makes his members the members of an harlot, and on that consideration, and ⟨p. 354⟩conclusion, with part of the dignity of Believers, whose persons are all the members of Christ, perswades them from the sinne of Fornication; That they may so much as fall into that sinne, he doth not here intimate. That men not only in respect of themselves, and their principles of sinne, and pronenesse unto it, within, with the prevalency of Temptations, but also eventually, notwithstanding any regard or respect to other externall prohibiting causes, may fall into all the sinnes from which they are dehorted, Mr Goodwin hath not proved as yet, nor shall I live, to see him do it.