A53688:1340
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.
But First,1 if a man should ask Mr Goodwin, what he intends by this Operation of God on the will of man, to the end intended, I fear he would be very hard put to it, to instance in any particular: It is sufficiently evident, he acknowledgeth none in this kind, but what consists in the Exhortations of the Word.
But First,1 if a man should aske Mr Goodwin, what he intends by this Operation of God on the will of man, to the end intended, I feare he would be very hard put to it, to instance in any particular: It is sufficiently evident, he acknowledgeth none in this kind, but what consists in the Exhortations of the VVord.
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Secondly, having told us before, that Physical, is as much as Necessary, and Moral as Not-necessary: How comes it about that the same operation of God, the same Act of his Power is become in several regards Physical and Moral? That is, Necessary and Not-necessary? is Mr Goodwin reconciled to the Assertion, That the same thing may be said to be Necessary, and Not-necessary, in sundry respects?
Secondly, having told us before, that Physicall, is as much as Necessary, and Morall as Not-necessary: How comes it about that the same operation of God, the same Act of his Power is become in severall regards Physicall and Morall? That is, Necessary and Not-necessary? is Mr Goodwin reconciled to the Assertion, That the same thing may be said to be Necessary, and Not-necessary, in sundry respects?