A53688:530
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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Ans. If that necessity were not voluntarily chosen, which enforceth men to wrest and pervert the Word of God, not only to Mistaken, but strange, uncouth, and inconsistent senses, their so doing might perhaps seem not to be altogether without colour and pretext: but when they willingly embrace those paths, which will undoubtedly lead them into the Briers, and contrary to abundance of Light, and Evidence of Truth embrace those persuasions, which necessitate them to such courses, I know not what Cloak they have left for their deviations. An Example of this we have before us in the words recited: A sense is violently pinned upon the Apostles words, not only alien, foreign to the scope of the place, and Genuine signification of the words themselves, but wholly unsuited for any serviceableness to the end, for which the Author of this Gloss himself, confesseth these Expressions of the Apostle, to be produced, and used.
Ans. If that necessity were not voluntarily chosen, which inforceth men to wrest and pervert the Word of God, not only to Mistaken, but strange, uncouth, and inconsistent sences, their so doing might perhaps seeme not to be altogether without colour and pretext: but when they willingly imbrace those paths, which will undoubtedly lead them into the Briers, and contrary to abundance of Light, and Evidence of Truth imbrace those perswasions, which necessitate them to such courses, I know not what Cloake they have left for their deviations. An Example of this we have before us in the words recited: A sence is violently pinned upon the Apostles words, not only alien, forraigne to the scope of the place, and Genuine signification of the words themselves, but wholy unsuited for any serviceablenesse to the end, for which the Author of this Glosse himselfe, confesseth these Expressions of the Apostle, to be produced, and used.
The sum of Mr Goodwins Exposition of this place, is this. The Foundation of God, is the Gospel or the Doctrine of it: its standing, or standing sure, the certain truth of the Gospel: the Seal mentioned, is the substance or matter of that saying, God knows who are his, contained in the Gospel; and the Answer to the Objection or scruple, lies in this, that the reason why men fall from the Gospel, (which neither is, nor was the scruple, nor was it so