A53688:202
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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Si autem persever antiam non habent, id est, in eo quod caperunt esse non manent, non verè appellantur, quod appellantur & non sunt. As also de Doct: Christianâ, Lib. 3. C. 32: non est revera Corpus Christi quod non erit cum illo in aeternum.
And these are the Persons which Austin, and those of the same judgment with him, do ⟨image 24⟩grant that they may fall away, such as upon the account of their Baptismal entrance into the Church, their Pious devout lives, their profession of the faith of the Gospel, they called and accounted regenerate believers, whom yet they tell you upon a through search into the nature and causes of holiness, grace, and walking with God that they would be found, not to be truly, and really in that state and condition, that they were esteemed to be in; of which they thought this a sufficient Demonstration, even because they did not persevere: which undeniably on the other hand (with the testimonies foregoing, and the like innumerable that might be produced) evinces, that their constant judgment was, that all who are truly, really, and in the sight of God believers, ingrafted into Christ, and adopted into his family, should certainly Persevere: and that all the passages usually cited out of this holy and learned man, to persuade us that he ever cast an eye towards the Doctrine of the Apostasy of the Saints, may particularly be referred to this head, and manifested that they do not at all concern those, whom he esteemed Saints indeed; which is clear from the consideration of what hath been insisted on. Thus far He, of whom what were the thoughts of the Church of God in the days wherein he lived, hath been declared: He who hath been esteemed amongst the Ecclesiastical Writers of old to have laboured more, and to more purpose in the Doctrine of the Grace of God, then all that went before him, or any that have followed after him, whose renown in the Church hath been chiefly upheld, and maintained upon the account of the blessed pains, and labours wherein the Presence of God made him to excel, for the depressing the pride of all flesh, and the exaltation of the riches of God's love, and efficacy of his grace in Jesus Christ, wherewith the whole Church in succeeding Ages hath been advantaged beyond what is easy to be expressed.