A53688:938
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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3. That, which he seems to intend, is the presence of the Spirit in the Administration of the Word, to make it effectual, unto them to whom it is delivered; when the Promise is to give him as a Comforter, to them, on whom he is bestowed. But he adds Sect. 14.
3. That, which he seemes to intend, is the presence of the Spirit in the Administration of the Word, to make it effectuall, unto them to whom it is delivered; when the Promise is to give him as a Comforter, to them, on whom he is bestowed. But he adds Sect. 14.
4. And lastly, This particle [Greek or Hebrew] doth not always import the certainty of the thing spoken of, by way of event, (no, not when the speech is of God himself) but oft times the intention only of the Agent: so that the words (that he may abide with you for ever) do not imply an absolute necessity of his abiding with them for ever, but only; that it should be the intent of him that should send him, and that he would ⟨p. 182⟩send him in such a way, that if they were true to their own interest, they might retain him, and have his abode with them for ever. Turn the words any way, with any tolerable congruity, either to the scope of the place, manner of Scripture expression, principles of Reason, and the Doctrine of Perseverance will be found to have nothing in them.
4. And lastly, This particle 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 doth not alwayes import the certainty of the thing spoken of, by way of event, (no, not when the speech is of God himselfe) but oft times the intention only of the Agent: so that the words (that he may abide with you for ever) doe not imply an absolute necessity of his abiding with them for ever, but only; that it should be the intent of him that should send him, and that he would ⟨p. 182⟩send him in such a way, that if they were true to their own interest, they might retain him, and have his abode with them for ever. Turne the words any way, with any tolerable congruity, either to the scope of the place, manner of Scripture expression, principles of Reason, and the Doctrine of Perseverance will be found to have nothing in them.