A53688:213
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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4 That no Believer can by his own strength or power (incited, or stirred up, by what manlike, or rational considerations so ever) Persevere in the Faith; the Grace of Perseverance being a gift of God: It is true; that their Judgments being perverted by sundry other Corrupt Principles, about the Nature, and Efficacy of Sacraments, with their Conveyance of Grace, ex opere operato, and out of Ignorance of the Righteousness of God, and the Real work of Regeneration, they generally maintain (though Bradwardine punctually expressed himself to be of another mind) that many Persons, not Predestinate, may come to believe, yet fall away and perish.
4 That no Believer can by his own strength or power (incited, or stirred up, by what manlike, or rational considerations so ever) Persevere in the Faith; the Grace of Perseverance being a gift of God: It is true; that their Judgments being perverted by sundry other Corrupt Principles, about the Nature, and Efficacy of Sacraments, with their Conveyance of Grace, ex opere operato, and out of Ignorance of the Righteousness of God, and the Real work of Regeneration, they generally maintaine (though Bradwardine punctually exprest himselfe to be of another mind) that many Persons, not Predestinate, may come to believe, yet fall away and perish.
Now the Truth is, it is properly no part of the Controversy under consideration, whether, or how far, and in what sense, men by Reason of the Profession, & Participation of Ordinances with the work, & effect of common Grace upon them, may be said to be True Believers; but the whole, upon the matter, of what we plead for is comprised in the Assertions now ascribed to them; which that it is done upon sufficient grounds, will be manifest by calling in some few, of the most eminent of Them, to speak in their own words, what their thoughts were in this matter.
Now the Truth is, it is properly no part of the Controversy under consideration, whether, or how far, and in what sense, men by Reason of the Profession, & Participation of Ordinances with the work, & effect of common Grace upon them, may be sayd to be True Believers; but the whole, upon the matter, of what we plead for is comprised in the Assertions now ascribed to them; which that it is done upon sufficient grounds, will be manifest by calling in some few, of the most eminent of Them, to speak in their own words, what their thoughts were in this matter.