A53688:608
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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M. Goodwin hath many deductions out of the former (sure and evident) premises,1 to prove that this is not a promise of Absolute and Final Perseverance (it is a strange Perseverance, that is not final) in Grace to the end of their lives: for saith he,
M. Goodwin hath many deductions out of the former (sure and evident) premises,1 to prove that this is not a promise of Absolute and Finall Perseverance (it is a strange Perseverance, that is not finall) in Grace to the end of their lives: for saith he,
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1. The Promise is made to the Body of the People, and not to the Saints and Believers among them, and respects as well the Unfaithful, as the Believers, in that Nation.
1. The Promise is made to the Body of the People, and not to the Saints and Believers among them, and respects as well the Vnfaithfull, as the Believers, in that Nation.
Ans. It was made to the Body of the People only Typically considered, and so it was accomplished to the Body of the People; Spiritually and Properly to the Elect among the People, who, as the Apostle tells us, obtained accordingly. There being also in the Promise wrapped up, the Grace of effectual Conversion; It may in some sense be said to be made to the unfaithful: that is, to such as were so antecedently to the Grace thereof: but not to any that abide so, for the Promise is, not that they shall not, but that they shall Believe, & continue in so doing to the end. But saith he,