A53688:1654
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
I should not farther pursue this discourse, nor insist on this digression, but that M. Goodwin hath taken advantage by the mention of Regeneration, to deliver some rare notions of the nature of it, which deserve a little our farther taking notice of, for which end doubtless he published them. To make way then for his intendment, he informs us (Sect: 29.) That Regeneration it self, according to the Grammatical and proper signification of the word imports a reiteration, or repetition of some generation or other; it cannot import a Repetition of the natural all Generation of men; the sense of Nicodemus in this point was Orthodox, who judged such a thing impossible, therefore it must import a repetition of a spiritual generation, unless we shall say (which I think is the road opinion) that ⟨p. 357⟩it signifies only the spiritual generation with a kind of reflection upon, and unto the birth Natural.
I should not farther pursue this discourse, nor insist on this digression, but that M. Goodwin hath taken advantage by the mention of Regeneration, to deliver some rare notions of the nature of it, which deserve a little our farther taking notice of, for which end doubtlesse he published them. To make way then for his intendment, he informes us (Sect: 29.) That Regeneration it selfe, according to the Grammaticall and proper signification of the word imports a reiteration, or repetition of some generation or other; it cannot import a Repetition of the naturall all Generation of men; the sence of Nicodemus in this poynt was Orthodox, who judged such a thing impossible, therefore it must import a repetition of a spirituall generation, unlesse we shall say (which I think is the road opinion) that ⟨p. 357⟩it signifies only the spirituall generation with a kind of reflection upon, and unto the birth Naturall.
Ans. First, That the Grammatical sense of the word imports a Reiteration of some generation, is only said; [Greek or Hebrew] hath other signification in composition, besides the intimating of a reiteration of the same thing: either in specie, or individually, the same again; [Greek or Hebrew] would seem rather to enforce such an Interpretation, than [Greek or Hebrew], which yet it doth not: It is spoken of that which hath no birth properly at all, as Philo de Mundo, [Greek or Hebrew] of it self is only through,