A53688:1652
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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But whatever it be in respect of God or men, yet that so it may be Mr Goodwin proves from. Heb. 6. 6. Where 'tis said, that 'tis impossible to renew some to repentance, wherefore some may be renewed; and in Jude 12. Men are said to be twice dead, therefore they may live twice Spiritually; The first proof seems somewhat uncouth. The persons spoken of in that place are in M. G. judgement Believers; there is no place of Scripture wherein he more triumphs in his endeavoured confirmation of his Thesis. The Holy Ghost says expressly of them, that 'tis impossible to renew them: therefore says M.G. 'tis possible; what is of emphasis in the Argument mentioned ariseth from two things. 1. That they are true Believers of which afterwards. 2. That they fall totally away; This then is the importance of M. Goodwins plea, from this place, If true believers fall totally away, it is impossible they should be renewed to Repentance, therefore if true Believers fall totally away, it is possible they should be renewed to and by Repentance; that there is a falling away, and a renewing again by Repentance of the same persons, we grant. That falling away is partial only, which is incident unto true Believers, who, when God heals their backslidings, are renewed by Repentance. To be renewed also by Repentance, is taken either for the renovation of our Natures, and our change as unto state and condition, and so it is the same with Regeneration and not to be repeated; or for a Recovery by Repentance in respect of personal failings, so it is the daily work of our lives. Jude says, some are twice dead; that is, utterly so, an hyperbolical expression to aggravate their condition. Those to whom the Gospel is a favour of Death unto Death, may well be said to be twice dead; unto the Death that they are involved in, and are obnoxious to by nature, they add a second death, or rather, seal up their souls under the power and misery of the other, by contempt of the means of Life and recovery; therefore Regeneration may be reiterated: Quod erat Demonstrandum.
But whatever it be in respect of God or men, yet that so it may be Mr Goodwin proves from. Heb. 6. 6. Where 'tis said, that 'tis impossible to renew some to repentance, wherefore some may be renewed; and in Jude 12