A53688:1347
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, There is in men a different power as to Persuasion; some having a faculty that way, far more eminent, and effectual than others, according to their skill and proficiency in Oratory and Persuasive Arts; this only is ascribed to God, that he so excels us, as one man excels another; But how that Excellency of his is exerted, that's not to be understood; But there is proof tendered you of all this, from 1 Cor: 3. 9. Where Ministers are said, to cooperate with God, which they cannot do, unless it be with the same kind of efficiency; (well said) And that when one works Necessitatingly, and another by Persuasion; they cannot be said to cooperate, no more then one that runs, or another that walks, can be said to walk together: Certainly our Author never dreamed that any man whatever, would put himself to the trouble of examining these dictates, or he would have been more wary of his asserting them, and we had not had so much not only new and strange Divinity, but new and uncouth Philosophy, heaped up without any considerable endeavour of proof or confirmation.
Fourthly, There is in men a different power as to Perswasion; some having a faculty that way, farre more eminent, and effectuall than others, according to their skill and proficiency in Oratory and Perswasive Arts; this only is ascribed to God, that he so excells us, as one man excells another; But how that Excellency of his is exerted, thats not to be understood; But there is proofe tendered you of all this, from 1 Cor: 3. 9. Where Ministers are said, to cooperate with God, which they cannot do, unlesse it be with the same kind of efficiency; (well said) And that when one workes Necessitatingly, and another by Perswasion; they cannot be said to cooperate, no more then one that runnes, or another that walkes, can be said to walke together: Certainly our Author never dreamed that any man whatever, would put himselfe to the trouble of examining these dictates, or he would have been more wary of his asserting them, and we had not had so much not only new and strange Divinity, but new and uncouth Philosophy, heaped up without any considerable endeavour of proofe or confirmation.
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