A53688:1262
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 sting of this Argument lieth in the Tail, 1or close of it, in the Reflection insisted on upon the common Doctrine of Perseverance as it is called: viz. that it teacheth God to be an accepter of Persons: This is Mr Goodwin's way of Arguing all along; When at any time he hath proposed a proof of ⟨p. 264⟩the Doctrine he goeth about to establish, finding that as something heavy work to lye upon his hand, and not much to be said in the case, he instantly turneth about and falleth upon his Adversaries, in declaiming against whom, he hath a rich and overflowing Vein. There is scarce any one of his Arguments, in the pursuit and improvement whereof, one fourth part of it, is spoken to that head, where in he is engaged.
But the sting of this Argument lieth in the Taile, 1or close of it, in the Reflection insisted on upon the common Doctrine of Perseverance as it is called: viz. that it teacheth God to be an accepter of Persons: This is Mr Goodwin's way of Arguing all along; When at any time he hath proposed a proofe of ⟨p. 264⟩the Doctrine he goeth about to establish, finding that as somthing heavy worke to lye upon his hand, and not much to be said in the case, he instantly turneth about and falleth upon his Adversaries, in declaiming against whom, he hath a rich and overflowing Veine. There is scarce any one of his Arguments, in the pursuit and improvement whereof, one fourth part of it, is spoken to that head, where in he is engaged.
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But wherein is the Common Doctrine of Perseverance guilty of this great crime?