A53688:1664
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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The Countenance which Mr Goodwin would beg to his Doctrine, from that of our Saviour to his Disciples, Except ye be turned and become as little Children ye cannot enter into the Kingdom of God; reproving their ambition and worldly thoughts from which they were to be weaned that they might befit for that Gospel state & employment whereunto he called them, & wherein they were to serve him, does no more advantage him nor the cause he hath undertaken, than that other caution of our Saviour to the same persons to be wise as serpents & innocent as Doves, would do him that should undertake to prove that Christians ought to become pigeons or snakes: Thus much then we have learned of the mind of M. G. by this digression; 1. That no children are Regenerate; 2. That they are all accepted with God through Christ, upon the account of the good Qualifications that are in them; 3. That Regeneration is a mans returning to the state wherein he is borne; And having taken out this Lesson, which we shall never learn by heart whilst we live, we may now proceed.
The Countenance which Mr Goodwin would begge to his Doctrine, from that of our Saviour to his Disciples, Except ye be turned and become as little Children ye cannot enter into the Kingdome of God; reproving their ambition and worldly thoughts from which they were to be weaned that they might befit for that Gospell state & imployment whereunto he called them, & wherein they were to serve him, does no more advantage him nor the cause he hath undertaken, than that other caution of our Saviour to the same persons to be wise asserpents & innocent as Doves, would do him that should undertake to prove that Christians ought to become pigeons or snakes: Thus much then we have learned of the mind of M. G. by this digression; 1. That no children are Regenerate; 2. That they are all accepted with God through Christ, upon the account of the good Qualifications that are in them; 3. That Regeneration is a mans returing to the state wherein he is borne; And having taken out this Lesson, which we shall never learne by heart whilst we live, we may now proceed.
I shall only add to the main of the business in hand,1