A53688:780
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. This is that which is repeated usque ad nauseam; and were it not for variety of expressions, wherewith some men do abound, to adorn it, it would appear extreme beggarly and over-worn; but a sorry shift (as they say) is better then none, or doubtless in this place it had not been made use of. For,
Ans. This is that which is repeated usque ad nauseam; and were it not for variety of expressions, wherewith some men doe abound, to adorne it, it would appeare extreame beggerly and over-worne; but a sorry shift (as they say) is better then none, or doubtlesse in this place it had not been made use of. For,
1. This Testimony is not called forth to speak immediately, to the continuance of Believers in their Faith, but to the continuance and unchangeableness of the Love of God to them; and consequentially only to their preservation in Faith upon that account.
1. This Testimony is not called forth to speake immediately, to the continuance of Believers in their Faith, but to the continuance and unchangeablenesse of the Love of God to them; and consequentially only to their preservation in Faith upon that account.
2. It is not only assumed at a cheap, and very low rate or price, but clearly gratis supposed, that Believers may make such interposals of Sin, Wickedness, and Rebellion in their walking with God, as should be inconsistent with the continuance of his Favour and Kindness to them, according to the tenor of the Covenant of Grace. His Kindness and Favour being to us things extrinsical, our sins are not opposed unto them really and directly, as though they might effectually infringe an Act of the Will of God, but only meritoriously; now when God saith, that he will continue his kindness to us for ever, notwithstanding the demerit of Sin, as is plainly intimated in that Allusion to the Waters of Noah, for any one to say that they may fall into such Sins and Rebellions, as that He cannot but turn his Kindness from them, is a bold attempt for the violation of his Goodness and Faithfulness, and a plain begging of the thing in Question. Certainly it is not a pious labour to thrust with violence such supposals into the Promises of God, as will stop those breasts from giving out any consolation, when no place or room for them doth at all appear: there being not one word, syllable, Iota, or tittle of any such supposals in them.