A53688:1650
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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Another burden upon the shoulders of Mr Goodwin's Doctrine,1 whereof he labours to deliver it, is the great Absurdity of the Repetition of Regeneration, whereof there is no mention at all in the Scripture, and which yet must be Asserted by him, unless he will affirm all that fall away at any time irrecoverably to perish; which howsoever he waves at present, were with much more probability according to his own principles, to be maintained, than what he insisteth on.
Another burthen upon the shoulders of Mr Goodwin's Doctrine,1 whereof he labours to deliver it, is the great Absurdity of the Repetition of Regeneration, whereof there is no mention at all in the Scripture, and which yet must be Asserted by him, unlesse he will affirme all that fall away at any time irrecoverably to perish; which howsoever he waves at present, were with much more probability according to his owne principles, to be maintained, than what he insisteth on.
- 1§. 46.
But this repetition of Regeneration (saith he) is not unworthy God, and for men a blessed and happy accommodation; whether it be unworthy God or no, the Scripture, and the nature of the thing will declare. The Accommodation that it seems to afford unto men, being a plain encouragement to sin at the highest rate imaginable, will perhaps not be found so Happy and Blessed unto them. With great noise and clamour, hath a charge been managed against the Doctrine of the Saints Perseverance, upon the account of its giving supportment to the thoughts of men, in and under the ways of sin; whether Truth and Righteousness have been regarded in that charge, hath been considered. Doubtless it were a matter of no difficulty, clearly to evince that this Doctrine of the Repetition of Regeneration, is of the very same tendency and import, which is falsely and injuriously charged upon that of the Perseverance of the Saints; The worst that a man thinks he can do by any act of sin, is but to sin himself quite out of the favour of God, into a state of death, and desert of wrath. He can no farther injure his soul, than to cast it into the condition of men by nature; Tell this man, now, whom you suppose to be under the temptation to sin, at least that he hath in him that great fool the flesh which longs for Blessed Accommodations to its self, whilst it makes provision to fulfil its lusts, that if he should so do, this is an ordinary thing for men to do,