A53688:1693
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. The divine original of that principle, or life is from God. They have the principle of Life, immediately from him, & therefore are said to be borne of God, & both these considerations are here used as descriptions of the Subject: & in the close of the Reason of the Proposition, they are insisted on, as the cause of ⟨p. 366⟩that Effect of not sinning; he sinneth not because he is borne of God; both the nature of the principle it self which in it self is abiding, and the rise or original that it hath from God, have an influence into that causality that is ascribed to it; but about this there can be no great contest.
2. The divine originall of that principle, or life is from God. They have the principle of Life, immediately frō him, & therefore are said to be borne of God, & both these considerations are here used as descriptions of the Subject: & in the close of the Reason of the Proposition, they are insisted on, as the cause of ⟨p. 366⟩that Effect of not sinning; he sinneth not because he is borne of God; both the nature of the principle it selfe which in it selfe is abiding, and the rise or originall that it hath from God, have an influence into that causality that is ascribed to it; but about this there can be no great contest.
2. Secondly That which is affirmed of every such person,1 is, that he committeth not sin. That this Expression is to be attended with its restrictions and limitations is evident, from that contrariety wherein, in its whole latitude it standeth to sundry other Testimonies in the Book of God; yea in this very Epistle. There is none that doth good and sinneth not, saith Solomon 1 Kings 8. and In many things we sin all saith James in the