A53688:949
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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1. First, This supposal of such interveniencies of sin, and wickedness ⟨p. 185⟩in the Saints, as are inconsistent with the life of Faith, and the favour of God, as also of Apostasy, are but a poor mean insinuation, for the begging of the thing in Question, which will never be granted of any such terms. An interveniency of Apostasy, that is defection from the Faith, is not handsomely supposed, whilst men continue in the Faith.
1. First, This supposall of such interveniencies of sinne, and wickednesse ⟨p. 185⟩in the Saints, as are inconsistent with the life of Faith, and the favour of God, as also of Apostasy, are but a poore meane insinuation, for the begging of the thing in Question, which will never be granted of any such termes. An interveniency of Apostasy, that is defection from the Faith, is not handsomely supposed, whilest men continue in the Faith.
2. That which is given for the confirmation of their Faith, and on set purpose to add continuance to it, as this is, cannot depend on the condition of the continuance of their Faith. The Holy Ghost seals them to the day of Redemption, confirming and establishing thereby an infallible continuance, of their Faith, but it seems upon condition of their continuance in the Faith. Cui finny? Of what hitherto is said this is the sum. If they who are sealed Apostatize into sin and wickedness, they shall not be saved, notwithstanding that they have been sealed: and this must pass for an answer to our Argument proving that they cannot so apostatise, because they are Sealed, on purpose to preserve and secure them from that Condition: Men need not go far to seek for Answers to any Argument, if such as these, (pure beggings of the thing in Question and argued) will suffice.
2. That which is given for the confirmation of their Faith, and on set purpose to adde continuance to it, as this is, cannot depend on the condition of the continuance of their Faith. The Holy Ghost seales them to the day of Redemption, confirming and establishing thereby an infallible continuance, of their Faith, but it seemes upon condition of their continuance in the Faith. Cui fini? Of what hitherto is said this is the summe. If they who are sealed Apostatize into sinne and wickednesse, they shall not be saved, notwithstanding that they have been sealed: and this must passe for an answer to our Argument proving that they cannot so apostatise, because they are Sealed, on purpose to preserve and secure them from that Condition: Men need not goe farre to seeke for Answers to any Argument, if such as these, (pure beggings of the thing in Question and argued) will suffice.