A53688:603
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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Ans. True, it is as evident as what before you affirmed, & that in the same kind, that is, it is evidently false; or else the Promise it self is so; for it was never fulfilled towards them all. But I refer you to a Learned Author, who hath long since assoiled this difficulty, and taught us to distinguish between a Jew [Greek or Hebrew], and a Jew [Greek or Hebrew], of Israel according to the flesh, 1and according to the Promise: He hath also taught us,2 that they are not all Israel that are of Israel. Rom: 9. 6. And upon that account it is, that the word of this Promise doth not fail, though all of Israel do not enjoy the fruit of it. Not that it is Conditional, but that it was not at all made unto them, as to the Spiritual part of it, to whom it was not wholly fulfilled. And cap. 11. He tells you that it was the Election to whom these Promises were made, and they obtained the fruit of them: neither doth that Appendix of Promises pointed to, look any other way. When you have made good your Observation by a Reply to that Learned Author, we shall think of a Rejoinder. It is therefore added,
Ans. True, it is as evident as what before you affirmed, & that in the same kind, that is, it is evidently false; or else the Promise it selfe is so; for it was never fulfilled towards them all. Bnt I referre you to a Learned Author, who hath long since assoyled this difficulty, and taught us to distinguish between a Jew 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, and a Jew 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, of Israel according to the flesh, 1and according to the Promise: He hath also taught us,2 that they are not all Israel that are of Israel. Rom: 9. 6. And upon that account it is, that the word of this Promise doth not faile, though all of Israel doe not enjoy the fruit of it. Not that it is Conditionall, but that it was not at all made unto them, as to the Spirituall part of it, to whom it was not wholly fulfilled. And cap. 11. He tells you that it was the Election to whom these Promises were made, and they obtained the fruit of them: neither doth that Appendix of Promises poynted to, look any other way. When you have made good your Observation by a Reply to that Learned Author, we shall think of a Rejoynder. It is therefore added,