A53688:624
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. Argued (Sect. 53.) That these words, I will give them one Heart, that they shall not depart from me, may be as well rendered that they may not depart from me, and so it is said in the verse foregoing, that they may fear me for ever.
5. Argued (Sect. 53.) That these words, I will give them one Heart, that they shall not depart from me, may be as well rendred that they may not depart from me, and so it is said in the verse foregoing, that they may feare me for ever.
Ans. 1. Suppose the words may be thus rendered, what inconvenience will ensue? Either way they evidently & beyond exception design out the End aimed at by God; and when God intends an End or Event, so as to exert a real efficiency for the compassing of it, to say that it shall not be infallibly brought about, is an Assertion, that many have not as yet had the boldness to venture on. But saith he:
Ans. 1. Suppose the words may be thus rendred, what inconvenience will ensue? Either way they evidently & beyond exception designe out the End aimed at by God; and when God intends an End or Event, so as to exert a reall efficiency for the compassing of it, to say that it shall not be infallibly brought about, is an Assertion, that many have not as yet had the boldnesse to venture on. But saith he:
2. The words so read do not necessarily import the actual event or taking place, of the effect intended of God in the Promise, and his performance thereof, but only his intention it self in both these, and the sufficiency of the means allowed for the producing such an effect: but it is of the same nature with that, that our Saviour saith John 5. 34. these things I say unto you, that ye might be saved: And that of God to Adam Gen: 3. 10, 11. All which things were in like manner insisted on by the Remonstrants at the Hague Colloquy.