A53688:1665
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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I shall only add to the main of the business in hand,1 that so long as a man is a child of God, he cannot, he need not to repeat his Regeneration. But that one who hath been the child of God, should cease to be the child of God, is somewhat strange. How can that be done amongst men? that he should cease to be such a mans son, who was his son? Those things that stand in Relation, upon any thing that is past, and therefore irrevocable, cannot have their beings continued, and their Relation dissolved; it is impossible but that cause and effect must be related one to another; such is the relation between Father and Son; The foundation of it is an act past and irrevocable, and therefore the Relation it self is indissoluble; Is it not so with God and his Children; when they once stand in that Relation, it cannot be dissolved. But of these things hitherto.
I shall only adde to the maine of the businesse in hand,1 that so long as a man is a child of God, he cannot, he need not to repeat his Regeneration. But that one who hath been the child of God, should cease to be the child of God, is somewhat strange. How can that be done amongst men? that he should cease to be such a mans sonne, who was his sonne? Those things that stand in Relation, upon any thing that is past, and therefore irrevocable, cannot have their beings continued, and their Relation dissolved; it is impossible but that cause and effect must be related one to another; such is the relation between Father and Sonne; The foundation of it is an act past and irrevocable, and therefore the Relation it selfe is indissoluble; Is it not so with God and his Children; when they once stand in that Relation, it cannot be dissolved. But of these things hitherto.
- 1§. 49.
To proceed with that place of Scripture which I laid as the foundation of this discourse.