A53688:114
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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But the Doctor gives you a double answer to this observation, with the several parts whereof, I doubt not but that he makes himself merry, if he can suppose that any men are so wedded to his dictates, as to give them entertainment: for indeed they are plainly jocular. But learned men must have leave sometimes to exercise their fancies, and to sport themselves with their own imaginations.
But the Doctour gives you a double answer to this observation, with the several parts whereof, I doubt not but that he makes himselfe merry, if he can suppose that any men are so wedded to his dictates, as to give them entertainment: for indeed they are plainly iocular. But learned men must have leave sometimes to exercise their fancies, and to sport themselves with their own imaginations.
1 Then, for the mention that is made of many Presbyters in the Church of Corinth, to whom Clement in the name of the Church of Rome, exhorts to give all due respect, honour, obedience. He tells you that by the Church of Corinth, all the Churches of Achaia are meant and intended. The Epistle is directed only [Greek or Hebrew], without the least intimation of any other Church or Churches. The difference it is written about, was occasioned by one or two persons in that Church only: it is that Church alone that is exhorted to order, and due subjection to their Elders. From the beginning to the end of the Epistle, there is not one word, apex, or tittle to intimate the designation of it, to any Church, or Churches beyond the single Church of Corinth: or that they had any concernment in the difference spoken to. The Fabric of after Ages lies so close to the Doctor's imagination; that there is no entrance for the true frame of the Primitive Church of Christ: and therefore every thing must be wrested, and apportioned to the conceit of such an Episcopacy as he hath entertained. Whereas he ought to crop off, both head, & heels of his own imagination, and the Episcopacy of the latter days, which he too dearly affects, he chooseth rather to stretch, & torture the ancient government of the Church, that it may seem to answer the frame presently contended for. But let us a little attend to the Doctor's learned arguments; whereby he endeavours to make good his assertion.