A53688:647
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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2. That if it be not so to be understood,1 and so said to be fulfilled as above, it is impossible for any one to assign how, and when this Promise was fulfilled. For first it was made to the whole People, and the fulfilling of it to a few, will not confirm the Truth of it. Secondly, The Elect had no need of it (knowing themselves to be so) that they should never fall away: so that this is but to make void the glorious Promise of God. And thirdly, to say that it was made to the Elect, is but to beg the thing in question.
2. That if it be not so to be understood,1 and so said to be fulfilled as above, it is impossible for any one to assigne how, and when this Promise was fulfilled. For first it was made to the whole People, and the fulfilling of it to a few, will not confirm the Truth of it. Secondly, The Elect had no need of it (knowing themselves to be so) that they should never fall away: so that this is but to make voyd the glorious Promise of God. And thirdly, to say that it was made to the Elect, is but to begge the thing in question.
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Ans. 1. As far as the Body of the People was concerned in it, it was, and shall be in the latter days absolutely accomplished towards them. It was, is, & shall be fulfilled to all to whom it was made, if so be that God be faithful, and cannot deny himself. 2. It was, it is, and shall be accomplished properly and directly to all the Elect of that Nation, to whom it was so made, as it hath been cleared already from Rom. 9. 10, 11. Where the Apostle expressly and datâ operâ answers the very Objection, that Mr Goodwin makes about the accomplishing of these Promises, concerning the hardening and rejection of the greatest part of that people, affirming it to consist in this, that the Election obtained, when the rest were hardened. Wherein he did not beg the question, though he digged not for it; but answered by clear distinctions, as you may see