A53688:569
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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What follows in Mr Goodwin from the beginning of Sect: 111. Cap: 10. to the end of Sect: 17. is little more then a Translation of the Remonstrants Sophistry, in vexing this Text in their Synodalia, which he knows full well where to find discussed, and removed. For the sake of our English Readers, I shall not avoid the consideration of it. I affirm then: 1. That the phrase [Greek or Hebrew] here denotes the Impossibility of the Event denied. The manner of ⟨p. 92⟩Speech, Circumstances of the place, with the aim of our Saviour in speaking, exacting this sense of the words. The words are [Greek or Hebrew]. It is the constant import of the word [Greek or Hebrew] to design the Event of the thing, which by what attends it, is asserted, or denied so Gal: 2. 13. Mat: 8. 28. 15. 31. 1 Thess: 1. 8. Neither is it ever used for [Greek or Hebrew]. In the place by some instanced for it Rom: 7. 6. it points clearly at the Event: [Greek or Hebrew] is sometimes put for it, but not on the contrary; and the words [Greek or Hebrew], though not so used always, (though sometimes they are, as Gal: 4. 15.) do signify at least a moral impossibility, when they refer to the endeavours of men; but relating to the prediction of an event by God himself, they are equivalent to an absolute Negation of it; That of Acts 20. 16. is urged to the contrary. Paul hoped [Greek or Hebrew], to be at Jerusalem at the Pentecost. If it be possible, here cannot imply an impossibility as to the event, says Mr G. But are these places parallel? Are all places, where the same phrase is used, always to be expounded in the same sense? The terms here, [if it be possible] respect not the futurition of the thing, but the uncertainty to Paul of its possibility or impossibility; the uncertainty (I say) of Paul in his conjecture, whether he should get to Jerusalem by such a time, or no; of which he was ignorant. Did our Saviour here conjecture about a thing, whereof he was ignorant whether it would come to pass, or no? We say not then, that in this place, where [Greek or Hebrew] is expressive of the uncertainty of him, that attempts any thing, of its Event, that it affirms an impossibility of it, and so to insinuate that Paul made all hast to do that, which he knew was impossible for him to do:
What followes in Mr Goodwin from the beginning of Sect: