A53688:1697
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. From the scope of the place and aim of the Apostle therein: This is to distinguish (as was said) betwixt the Children of God and of the Devil. The children of the Devil commit sin v. 8. He that committeth sin is of the Devil, as he giveth an instance of one that did so sin, v. 12. Cain (saith he) was of the Devil, he was of that wicked one and he committeth sin. How did Cain commit sin? impenitently, to death, that is the committing of sin which is ascribed to them that are of the Devil, of the wicked one; Now (saith he whosoever is borne of God doth not commit sin; that is, he doth not so commit sin as the Children of the Devil that wicked one do; He sins not to death with impenitency.
1. From the scope of the place and aime of the Apostle therein: This is to distinguish (as was said) betwixt the Children of God and of the Divell. The children of the Divell commit sinne v. 8. He that committeth sinne is of the Divell, as he giveth an instance of one that did so sin, v. 12. Cain (saith he) was of the Divell, he was of that wicked one and he committeth sinne. How did Cain commit sinne? impenitently, to death, that is the committing of sinne which is ascribed to them that are of the Devill, of the wicked one; Now (saith he whosoever is borne of God doth not commit sinne; that is, he doth not so commit sinne as the Children of the Divell that wicked one do; He sinnes not to death with impenitency.
2. The same Apostle doth most eminently clear his own intendment in this expression Chap: 5. v: 17, 18. of this Epistle, All unrighteousness is sin ⟨p. 367⟩there is a sin not unto death, we know that whosoever is borne of God, sinneth not, but he that is begotten of God, keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. That expression v. 18. Sineth not, standeth in opposition to the sin mentioned v. 17. Sin unto death: there is a sin unto death; but he that is borne of God sinneth not unto death; So that both the context and the Exposition of the words, given in a parallel place, affordeth us the sense insisted on.