A53688:924
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. There is not any necessary cause of that disjunctive proposition, The Promise of the perpetual residence of the Spirit is made, either to the Apostles ⟨p. 179⟩personally, or to the whole body of the Church: By the Rule formerly given for the Interpretation of these Promises of Christ, it appears, that what in this kind was made to the one, was also given to the other; and how Mr Goodwin will enforce any necessary conclusion from this distinction framed by himself, for his own purpose, I know not; The Promise was made both to these and those, the Apostles, and all other Believers, because to the Apostles, as Believers.
2. There is not any necessary cause of that disjunctive proposition, The Promise of the perpetuall residence of the Spirit is made, either to the Apostles ⟨p. 179⟩personally, or to the whole body of the Church: By the Rule formerly given for the Interpretation of these Promises of Christ, it appears, that what in this kind was made to the one, was also given to the other; and how Mr Goodwin will inforce any necessary conclusion from this distinction framed by himselfe, for his own purpose, I know not; The Promise was made both to these and those, the Apostles, and all other Believers, because to the Apostles, as Believers.
3. The making of the Promise to the Apostles personally, doth not argue that it was made to them, as Apostles, but only that it was made to their Persons, or to them, though under another qualification, viz. of Believing. 'Tis given to them personally as Believers, and so to all Believers whatever; This also sets at liberty, and plainly cashiers the comparison instituted between the Apostles Infallibility as Apostles, and their sanctifying grace as Believers, by the Spirit of Grace given for that end; The Apostles Infallibility, we confess, was from the Spirit; for they (as other Holy men of old) wrote as they were moved by the Spirit of God: 1