A53688:946
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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Unto an Argument from this sealing of the spirit thus proposed;1 Those who are sealed, shall certainly be saved; Mr Goodwin excepts sundry things Ch. 11. Sect. 42. Pag. 255, 256, 257. which because they are applied to blur that interpretation of the words of the Holy Ghost, which I have insisted on, I shall briefly remove out of the way, that they may be no farther offensive to the meanest sealed one.
Unto an Argument from this sealing of the spirit thus proposed;1 Those who are sealed, shall certainly be saved; Mr Goodwin excepts sundry things Ch. 11. Sect. 42. Pag. 255, 256, 257. which because they are applied to blurre that interpretation of the words of the Holy Ghost, which I have insisted on, I shall briefely remove out of the way, that they may be no farther offensive to the meanest sealed one.
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He answers then first by distinguishing the Major Proposition thus; They who are sealed, shall certainly be saved, with such a sealing, which is unchangeable by any intervenience whatsoever, as of sin and Apostasy, so that they cannot loose their Faith; but if the sealing be only such, the continuance whereof, depends on the Faith of the sealed, and consequently may be reversed, or with-drawn, it no way proves, that all they, who are partakers of it, must of necessity retain their Faith: therefore (saith he) 2ly We Answer farther, that the sealing with the spirit spoken of, is the Latter kind of sealing, not the former, (i.e.) which depends upon the Faith of those that are sealed; as in the beginning or first impression of it, so in the duration or continuance of it; and consequently there is none other certainty of its continuance, but only the continuance of the said Faith, which being uncertain, the sealing depending on it must needs be uncertain also: That the sealing mentioned, depends upon the Faith of the sealed, is evident, because tis said, in whom also after ye believed, ye were Sealed with the spirit of Promise.