A53688:566
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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5. We grant, that notwithstanding the security given, which respects the state and Condition of the persons spoken of, yet they may be, and often were seduced, and drawn aside into ways that are not right, into errors and false Doctrines, through the cunning sleights of men, who lay in wait to deceive, but never into such, (as to any abode in them,) which are inconsistent with the union with their Head, and his Life in them.
5. We grant, that notwithstanding the security given, which respects the state and Condition of the persons spoken of, yet they may be, and often were seduced, and drawne aside into wayes that are not right, into errours and false Doctrines, through the cunning sleights of men, who lay in wait to deceive, but never into such, (as to any abode in them,) which are inconsistent with the union with their Head, and his Life in them.
The Errors and ways whereunto they are, or may be seduced,1 are either such, as, though dangerous, yea in their Consequences pernicious, yet have not such an Aspect upon the Faith of Believers, as to deny a possibility of union, & holding the Head upon other accounts: I doubt not but that men for a season may not know, may disbelieve, and deny some fundamental Articles of Christian Religion, and yet not be absolutely concluded not to hold the Head by any sinew, or ligament; to have no influence of life by any other means. Was it not so with the Apostles, when they questioned the Resurrection of Christ, and with the Corinthians, who denied the Resurrection of the Saints? an abode, I confess, in either of which Errors would, when the Consequences of them are manifested, prove pernicious to the Souls of men. But that they have in themselves such an absolute Repugnancy unto, and inconsistency with the Life of Christ, however considered, as that their entertainment for a season, should be immediately exclusive thereof, I suppose Mr Goodwin himself will not say. In this sense then, we grant that true, Saving, Justifying Faith may consist with the denial of some fundamental Articles of Christian Religion, for a season: but that any True Believer can persist in such an Heresy, we deny; he having the Promise of the Spirit to lead him into all necessary Truth.