A53688:1203
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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The latter part of this Discourse,1 whereby its Author aimeth to exclude the Doctrine hitherto asserted by us, from any claim laid to usefulness for the promotion of Godliness, is either a mistake of it, through ignorance of the opinion he hath undertaken to oppose, or a wilful perverting of it, contrary to his own science & conscience; Is that the Doctrine you oppose? Is it so proposed by those who through Grace have laboured to explain, & vindicate it? Doth not the main weight of the doctrine turn on this hinge, that God hath promised to his Saints, true Believers, such supplies of the Spirit and Grace, as that they shall never degenerate unto such loose and profane courses, as are destructive to Godliness? Doubtless that Doctrine is of a most spotless untainted innocency, which its Adversaries dare not venture to strangle, before they have violently & treacherously deflowered it.
The latter part of this Discourse,1 whereby its Author aimeth to exclude the Doctrine hitherto asserted by us, from any claime laid to usefulnesse for the promotion of Godlinesse, is either a mistake of it, through ignorance of the opinion he hath undertaken to oppose, or a wilfull perverting of it, contrary to his owne science & conscience; Is that the Doctrine you oppose? Is it so proposed by those who through Grace have laboured to explaine, & vindicate it? Doth not the maine weight of the doctrine turne on this hinge, that God hath promised to his Saints, true Believers, such supplies of the Spirit and Grace, as that they shall never degenerate unto such loose and profane courses, as are destructive to Godlinesse? Doubtlesse that Doctrine is of a most spotlesse untainted innocency, which its Adversaries dare not venture to strangle, before they have violently & treacherously defloured it.
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And thus Mr Goodwin leaveth his Arguments in the dust, like the Ostriches eggs under the feet of men, to be trampled on with ease.