A53688:1723
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. What M. Goodwin intendeth by such a frame and constitution of spirit and soul, as may resemble God, with his denial of the bestowing on us from God a vital principle of Grace, wherein the Renovation in us, of his image should consist, hath in part also been already discovered, & will yet farther be so, in our consideration of his rare notion of Regeneration, & its consisting in a mans returnall to the innocent and harmless estate, wherein he was borne.
2. What M. Goodwin intendeth by such a frame and constitution of spirit and soule, as may resemble God, with his deniall of the bestowing on us from God a vitall principle of Grace, wherein the Renovation in us, of his image should consist, hath in part also been already discovered, & will yet farther be so, in our consideration of his rare notion of Regeneration, & its consisting in a mans returnall to the innocent and harmelesse estate, wherein he was borne.
3. That (sinneth not) is sinneth not that sin, or so sinneth, not as to break his Relation to God as a child, hath been already also manifested, and the Reader is not to be burdened with Repetition.
3. That (sinneth not) is sinneth not that sinne, or so sinneth, not as to break his Relation to God as a child, hath been already also manifested, and the Reader is not to be burthened with Repetition.
4. In the interpretation given of the latter phrase he cannot sin, I cannot so sin against the light of the Text, as to join with M. Goodwin in it: It is not the Antipathy of his heart to sin, but the Course of his walking with God, in respect of sin, that the Apostle treateth on. His internal principaling against sin, he hath, from being borne of God, and the abiding of his seed in him, of which this, that he cannot sin, is asserted as the effect. He cannot sin, that is, he cannot so sin, upon the account of his being borne of God. (Thence indeed he hath not only a potent disposition another way, and Antipathy to evil, but a vital principle, with an everlasting enmity, and repugnancy to, and inconsistency with any such sin, or sinning as is intimated,) and that he cannot sin, is the consequent and effect thereof, and is so affirmed to be by the Holy Ghost.