A53688:1691
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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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, John 1. 13. For it is ascribed to all Believers on the name of Christ v. 12. He begetteth them all of his own will. James 1. 18. as also 1 Epistle of Peter 1. chapter 23. verse, he is said to beget them, as to quicken them 2. Eph. 11 And they to be borne of him, as they are quickened or raised from the dead. Two things are intimated in this Expression.
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 cleare 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 againe not of the will of flesh but of God, Iohn 1. 13. For it is ascribed to all Believers on the name of Christ v. 12. He begetteth them all of his owne will. James 1. 18. as also 1 Epistle of Peter 1. chapter 23. verse, he is said to beget them, as to quicken them 2. Eph. 11 And they to be borne of him, as they are quickned or raised from the dead. Two things are intimated in this Expression.
1. A new principle, habit or Spiritual Life which such persons have; hence they are said to be borne; as they who are borne in the world are partakers of a vital principle, that is the foundation of all their actions, so have they here a new Life, a new vital principle, by their being borne are they made partakers of it.