A53688:1689
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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2. That it compriseth all and every one that is interested in that which is the cause of the certainty of this universal Assertion or proposition; every on who is borne of God, that hath this seed, be he young or old, weak or strong, wise or foolish, exercised in the ways of God, or newly entered into them, all is one; whosoever is thus interested in the foundation, is equally interested in the inference:
2. That it compriseth all and every one that is interested in that which is the cause of the certainty of this universall Assertion or proposition; every on who is borne of God, that hath this seed, be he young or old, weake or strong, wise or foolish, exercised in the wayes of God, or newly entred into them, all is one; whosoever is thus interested in the foundation, is equally interested in the inference:
In the proposition it self may be considered,1 the subject, and what is affirmed of it. The subject is, every one that is borne of God. That which is affirmed of it, is, sinneth not, cannot sin.
In the proposition it selfe may be considered,1 the subject, and what is affirmed of it. The subject is, every one that is borne of God. That which is affirmed of it, is, sinneth not, cannot sinne.
- 1§. 60.
1. For the first viz. the Subject; they are those which are borne of God; and who they are that are so borne of God, the Scripture is clear in; neither is there any difference of importance, as to the intendment of this expression. Those who suppose that Believers of some eminency only are denoted in it, do not consider that all Believers whatever are shares in the Grace intended therein; they are all said to be borne again not of the will of flesh but of God,