A53688:959
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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What he adds in the last place, namely, 1if the Apostles intent had been to inform the Ephesians, that the gift of the Holy Spirit, which they had received from God, was the earnest of their inheritance, upon such terms, that no unworthiness, or wickedness whatsoever, on their parts, could ever hinder the actual collation of this inheritance upon them, he had plainly prevaricated with that most serious Admonition, wherein he addresses himself to them afterwards, For this ye know, that no Whore-monger, &c. hath any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ; This I say, is of the same alloy with what went before. For,
What he addes in the last place, namely, 1if the Apostles intent had been to informe the Ephesians, that the gift of the Holy Spirit, which they had received from God, was the earnest of their inheritance, upon such termes, that no unworthinesse, or wickednesse whatsoever, on their parts, could ever hinder the actuall collation of this inheritance upon them, he had plainly prevaricated with that most serious Admonition, wherein he addresses himselfe to them afterwards, For this ye know, that no Whore-monger, &c. hath any inheritance in the Kingdome of Christ; This I say, is of the same alloy with what went before. For,
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1. Here is the same begging of the Question as before, and that upon a twofold account. 1. In supposing, that Believers may fall into such sins, and unworthiness, as are inconsistent with the state of Acceptation with God, which is the very thing he hath to prove. 2. In supposing, that, if Believers are sealed up infallibly to Redemption, the Exhortations to the avoidance of sins, in themselves, and to all that continue in them, destructive to Salvation, are in vain: which is a figment, in a case somewhat alike (as to the reason of it) rejected by men, that knew nothing of the nature of Gods Promises, nor his commands, nor the Accommodation of them both, to the fulfilling in Believers, all the good pleasure of his Goodness.