A53688:1282
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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Fourthly, That all the hope of their Perseverance, is built on the Promises of God, to preserve them by, and in the use of means; So that in Truth there is no need of any farther process for the removing of the Argument insisted on, but only a disclaimer of the Doctrine by it opposed, if it be that which is here expressed:
Fourthly, That all the hope of their Perseverance, is built on the Promises of God, to preserve them by, and in the use of meanes; So that in Truth there is no need of any farther processe for the removing of the Argument insisted on, but only a disclaimer of the Doctrine by it oposed, if it be that which is here exprest:
That indeed which Mr Goodwin hath to dispute against,1 if he will deal fairly and candidly in the carrying on of his design, is this, That the certainty of an end to be obtained by means suited thereunto, doth not enervate nor render vain the use of those means, appointed for the accomplishment of that end; The Perseverance of the Saints is the thing here proposed to be accomplished: that this shall be certainly effected and brought about according to the Promises of God for the effecting of it, God hath appointed the means under debate, to be managed by the Ministry of the Gospel: that the Promise of God, concerning the Saints Perseverance to be wrought and effected, as by others, so by these means in their kind, doth not invalidate or render useless and vain the use of those means, but indeed establishes them, and ascribes to them their proper efficacy, is that which in this Doctrine is asserted, and which Mr Goodwin ought to have disproved, if he would have acquitted himself as a fair Antagonist in this cause; The Promise (we say) that Hezekiah had of the continuance of his Life,2 did not make useless but called for the plaster of figs that was appointed for the healing of his sore.
That indeed which Mr Goodwin hath to dispute against,