A53688:1710
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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Thus we have cleared the first Proposition in the words, both as to the Subject, every one that is borne of God; and the Predicate, sinneth not, cannot sin, Which last expression, taken in its only proper and most usual signification, denoteth an Impossibility of the event, & plainly confirmeth in direct terms the position we insist on from the words.
Thus we have cleared the first Proposition in the words, both as to the Subject, every one that is borne of God; and the Predicate, sinneth not, cannot sinne, Which last expression, taken in its only proper and most usuall signification, denoteth an Impossibility of the event, & plainely confirmeth in direct termes the position we insist on from the words.
Mr Goodwin knoweth not well,1 (If I am able to gather any thing of his thoughts, from his expressions to the Argument in hand,) what to say to this Assertion of the Apostles. The Argument he intendeth to deal withal from the place he casteth into this form, He that sinneth not neither can sin, cannot fall away, whosoever is borne of God sinneth not, neither can sin: Ergo,
Mr Goodwin knoweth not well,1 (If I am able to gather any thing of his thoughts, from his expressions to the Argument in hand,) what to say to this Assertion of the Apostles. The Argument he intendeth to deale withall from the place he casteth into this forme, He that sinneth not neither can sinne, cannot fall away, whosoever is borne of God sinneth not, neither can sinne: Ergo,
- 1§. 65.