A53688:1663
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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Thirdly, The qualifications of Infants not Regenerated, are merely negative ⟨p. 359⟩and that in respect of the acts of sin, not the habitual seed and root of them; for in them dwells no good; that in respect of these qualifications of Innocency that are in them by nature Antecedent to any Regeneration (all which are resolved into a Natural impotency of perpetrating sin) they are accepted in Grace and favour with God, had been another new notion, had not Pelagius and Socinus before you fallen upon it; without Faith it is impossible to please God Heb. 11. 6. And his wrath abides on them that Believe not. John 3. 36. That Infants have or may have Faith, and not be regenerated, will scarcely be granted by them who believe the Spirit of Christ to cause Regeneration where he is bestowed Tit. 3. 5. And all Faith to be the Fruit of that Spirit; Gal 5. 26, 27. Farther for the qualifications of Infants by Nature; how are they brought clean, from that which is unclean? Are they not conceived in sin and brought forth in iniquity? Or was that Davids hard case alone? If they are borne of the flesh, and are flesh, if they are unclean, how come they to be in that estate, upon the account of their Qualifications accepted in the Love and favour of him, who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity? If this be the Doctrine of Regeneration that M. G. preaches I desire the Lord to bless them that belong unto him, in a deliverance from attending thereunto. Of the Effects of the death of Christ, in respect of all children I shall not now treat; That they should be saved by Christ not washed in his Blood, not sanctified by his Spirit, (which to be is to be Regenerate,) is another new notion of the new Gospel.
Thirdly, The qualifications of Infants not Regenerated, are meerely negative ⟨p. 359⟩and that in respect of the acts of sinne, not the habituall seed and root of them; for in them dwells no good; that in respect of these qualifications of Innocency that are in them by nature Antecedent to any Regeneration (all which are resolved into a Naturall impotency of perpetrating sinne) they are accepted in Grace and favour with God, had been another new notion, had not Pelagius and Socinus before you fallen upon it; without Faith it is impossible to please God