A53688:1728
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. This Reason (the seed abideth in him) though brought in illatively, in respect of what was said before, [he doth not commit sin] yet hath its causal influence chiefly into that which followeth, he cannot sin. To make good what was first spoken, of his not committing sin that is borne of God, the Apostle discovereth the cause of it, which so far secureth the truth of that expression, as that it causeth it to ascend, and call them up higher, to a certain impossibility of doing of that which was only at first simply denied. Neither is this Assertion the seed of God abideth in him, any otherwise a Reason of the first Assertion He committeth not sin, than as it is the cause of the latter He cannot sin. Now Mr Goodwin granteth in the close of his Discourse, that the future continuance of a thing in being, is, or may be the cause of the continuance of an effect which at present it produceth; and what Mr Goodwin may more curiously discover of the intent of the Apostle, his words plainly assert the continuance and abode of the seed of God in them in whom it is; and using it as he doth, for a reason of the latter cla•se of that Proposition [He cannot sin] he speaketh properly enough, so great a Master (of one language at least) as Mr Goodwin being judge.
1. This Reason (the seed abideth in him) though brought in illatively, in respect of what was said before, [he doth not commit sinne] yet hath its causall influence chiefly into that which followeth, he cannot sinne. To make good what was first spoken, of his not committing sinne that is borne of God, the Apostle discovereth the cause of it, which so farre secureth the truth of that expression, as that it causeth it to ascend, and call them up higher, to a certaine impossibility of doing of that which was only at first simply denyed. Neither is this Assertion the seed of God abideth in him, any otherwise a Reason of the first Assertion He committeth not sinne, than as it is the cause of the latter He cannot sinne. Now Mr Goodwin granteth in the close of his Discourse, that the future continuance of a thing in being, is, or may be the cause of the continuance of an effect which at present it produceth; and what Mr Goodwin may more curiously discover of the intent of the Apostle, his words plainly assert the continuance and abode of the seed of God in them in whom it is; and using it as he doth, for a reason of the latter cla•se of that Proposition [He cannot sinne] he speaketh properly enough, so great a Master (of one language at least) as Mr Goodwin being judge.