A53688:1658
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, That in the term Regeneration two births are implied, may be granted: that the same is intimated to be repeated, is denied: and not proved at all; And therefore Mr Goodwin says well, that the introducing of a contrary form, is not called the reiteration of an other, no more is it here; ⟨p. 358⟩our new birth is called our Regeneration, or new generation, in allusion to our natural birth, not as a repetition of it, neither is the Allusion in respect of the contrary qualities wherewith the one, and the other are attended, but in respect of the things themselves, in which regard, as they are not the same, so they are not contrary but diverse. They are both births, the one Natural the other Spiritual; Natural and Spiritual in that sense are not contrary qualities, but diverse adjuncts; and so are the two births compared, 1 Pet. 1. 23. John 1. 13. In which last place our Regeneration is expressed under the simple term of being borne, with distinction to the natural birth, and not the least intimation of the iteration of any birth or Generation subjoined; so also is it James 1. 18. so that hitherto little progress is made by Mr Goodwin towards his intendment whatever it be; thus then he expresseth it.
Ans, That in the terme Regeneration two births are implyed, may be granted: that the same is intimated to be repeated, is denyed: and not proved at all; And therefore Mr Goodwin sayes well, that the introducing of a contrary forme, is not called the reiteration of an other, no more is it here; ⟨p. 358⟩our new birth is called our Regeneration, or new generation, in allusion to our naturall birth, not as a repetition of it, neither is the Allusion in respect of the contrary qualityes wherewith the one, and the other are attended, but in respect of the things themselves, in which regard, as they are not the same, so they are not contrary but diverse. They are both births, the one Naturall the other Spirituall; Naturall and Spirituall in that sence are not contrary qualityes, but diverse adjuncts; and so are the two births compared,