A53688:1256
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
IT will be needless to use many words unto the Discourse of the first Section;1 seeing it will not in the least prejudice our Cause in hand, to leave Mr Godwin in full possession of all the Glory of the Rhetoric thereof. For although I cannot close with him in the Exposition given of that expression 1 Tim. 6. 16. God inhabiteth Light inaccessible, some thing in my weak apprehension, much more glorious & divine being comprised therein, then what it is here turned aside unto; Neither am I in the least convinced of the truth [Greek or Hebrew] of the former Discourse, in the close of the whole, asserting a deliverance to be obtained from our thoughts of the Doctrine of the defection of the Saints, which he intimateth to be, that it is anti-evangelical, tormenting, and bringing souls under bondage, by a narrow, and unprejudicate search into it, finding my self every day more and more confirmed in thoughts of that kind concerning it, by my engagement into such an enquiry (which hath been observed in this present Discourse, as far as my weakness will permit; yet it being not in the least Argumentative, but for the whole frame and intendment of it Commune exordium, and that which any man of any opinion in the world might make use of, I shall not insist upon it.
IT will be needlesse to use many words unto the Discourse of the first Section;1 seeing it will not in the least prejudice our Cause in hand, to leave Mr Godwin in full possession of all the Glory of the Rethoricke thereof. For although I cannot close with him in the Exposition given of that expression 1 Tim. 6. 16. God inhabiteth Light inaccessible, some thing in my weake apprehension, much more glorious & divine being comprised therein, then what it is here turned aside unto; Neither am I in the least convinced of the truth 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 of the former Discourse, in the close of the whole, asserting a deliverance to be obtained from our thoughts of the Doctrine of the defection of the Saints, which he intimateth to be, that it is anti-evangelicall, tormenting, and bringing soules under bondage, by a narrow, and unprejudicate search into it, finding my selfe every day more and more confirmed in thoughts of that kind concerning it, by my engagement into such an enquiry (which hath been observed in this present Discourse, as farre as my weakenesse will permit; yet it being not in the least Argumentative, but for the whole frame and intendment of it Commune exordium, and that which any man of any opinion in the world might make use of, I shall not insist upon it.