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for Jovinian was preaching salvation by faith alone, and the uselessness of good works for salvation.
Jovinian was, in effect, teaching salvation by faith alone.
Jovinian held that salvation comes by faith alone without good works.
It is plainly evident that Jovinian could only have understood by the church , here , the invisible church
As Jovinian taught the Pauline doctrine of faith, so he did the Pauline idea of the invisible Church
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But there is an invisible Church, which has existed in every century, which is pure and spotless. ... This whole train of thought has been suggested by reading the words of Jovinian, in Neander
Jovinian's second point has an apparent affinity with the Augustinian and Calvinistic doctrine of the perseverantia sanctorum. It is not referred by him, however, to the eternal and unchangeable counsel of God, but simply based on 1 Jno. iii. 9, and v. 18, and is connected with his abstract conception of the opposite moral states. He limits the impossibility of relapse to the truly regenerate, who "plena fide in baptismate renati sunt," and makes a distinction between the mere baptism of water and the baptism of the Spirit, which involves also a distinction between the actual and the ideal church.
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