A53688:543
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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
What followeth to the end of this Section, is but a new expression of what Mr Goodwin pretends to be the sense of this place. The Foundation of God is the Gospel, or the Promise of God to save Believers: the Seal is his taking notice of them to save them, and to condemn them that Believe not: and therefore questionless Believers need not fear that they shall fall away, though there be not the least intimation made of any thing, that should give them the least comfortable or cheering security of preservation in Believing: only 'tis said, he that believeth shall be saved, (which yet is not an absolute Promise of Salvation to Believers) and he that believeth not shall be damned: which one disjunctive Proposition declarative of the connection that is between the Means and the End, Mr Goodwin labours to make comprehensive of all the Purposes of God concerning Believers, it being such as wherein no one person in the world, is more concerned then another. If the Foundation here mentioned be only God's Purpose, (or rather declaration) of his Will for the Saving of Believers, and the Damning of Unbelievers, what Consolation could be from hence administered in particular unto persons labouring under the Scruple mentioned formerly, hath not as yet been declared. Let us then proceed to further proof of the Truth in hand, and the vindication of some other places of Scripture whereby it is confirmed.
What followeth to the end of this Section, is but a new expression of what Mr Goodwin pretends to be the sence of this place. The Foundation of God is the Gospell, or the Promise of God to save Believers: the Seale is his taking notice of them to save them, and to condemne them that Believe not: and therefore questionlesse Believers need not feare that they shall fall away, though there be not the least intimation made of any thing, that should give them the least comfortable or chearing security of preservation in Believing: only 'tis said, he that believeth shall be saved, (which yet is not an absolute Promise of Salvation to Believers) and he that believeth not shall be damned: which one disjunctive Proposition declarative of the connexion that is between the Means and the End, Mr Goodwin labours to make comprehensive of all the Purposes of God concerning Believers, it being such as wherein no one person in the world, is more concerned then another. If the Foundation here mentioned be only God's Purpose, (or rather declaration) of his Will for the Saving of Believers, and the Damning of Unbelievers, what Consolation could be from hence administred in particular unto persons laboring under the Scruple mentioned formerly, hath not as yet been declared. Let us then proceed to further proofe of the Truth in hand, and the vindication of some other places of Scripture whereby it is confirmed.