A53688:538
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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But, (saith Mr Goodwin,) this is no more, then what the Apostle elsewhere speaks, Rom: 3. 3. What if some did not believe, shall their unbelief make the Faith of God of none effect? that is, shall the Unbelief of men be interpreted as any tolerable Argument, or ground, to prove that God is unfaithful? or that he hath no other Faith in him, then that which sometimes miscarrieth, and produceth not that, for which it stands engaged? Implying that such an interpretation as this, is unreasonable in the highest.
But, (saith Mr Goodwin,) this is no more, then what the Apostle elsewhere speakes, Rom: 3. 3. What if some did not believe, shall their unbeliefe make the Faith of God of none effect? that is, shall the Vnbeliefe of men be interpreted as any tolerable Argument, or ground, to prove that God is unfaithfull? or that he hath no other Faith in him, then that which sometimes miscarrieth, and produceth not that, for which it stands ingaged? Implying that such an interpretation as this, is unreasonable in the highest.
But truly by the way, if it be so, I know not who in the lowest can quit Mr Goodwin from unreasonableness in the highest: for doth he not contend in this whole Discourse, that the Faith of God in his Promises, for the producing of that, for which it stands engaged (as when he saith to Believers, he will never leave them, nor for sake them) doth so depend on the Faith of men, as to the Event intended, that it is very frequently by their unbelief, rendered of none Effect? Is not this the spirit, that animates the whole Religion of the Apostasy of Saints? Is it not the great Contest between us, whether any unbelief of men may interpose to render the Faith of God of none effect, as to the producing of the thing he promiseth? Tibi, quia intristi, exedondum est.
But truly by the way, if it be so, I know not who in the lowest can quit Mr Goodwin from unreasonablenesse in the highest: for doth he not contend in this whole Discourse, that the Faith of God in his Promises, for the producing of that, for which it stands ingaged (as when he saith to Believers, he will never leave them, nor for sake them) doth so depend on the Faith of men, as to the Event intended, that it is very frequently by their unbeliefe, rendred of none Effect? Is not this the spirit, that animates the whole Religion of the Apostacy of Saints? Is it not the great Contest between us, whether any unbeliefe of men may interpose to render the Faith of God of none effect, as to the producing of the thing he promiseth? Tibi, quia intristi, exedondum est.