A53688:135
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.
Let then the Reader pardon this my utmost Excursion in this digression, to whose compass I had not the least thoughts of going forth, at the entrance thereof, and I shall return thither whence I have turned aside.
Let then the Reader pardon this my utmost Excursion in this digression, to whose compass I had not the least thoughts of going forth, at the entrance thereof, and I shall returne thither whence I have turned aside.
Dissert: 4. cap. 5. The Doctor tells us that, septem Ecclesiarum Angeli, non tantum Episcopi sed & Metropolitae i: e: Archi-Episcopi statuendi sunt. i: e: principalium urbium [Greek or Hebrew] ad quos provinciae integrae & in iis multarum inferiorum urbium Ecclesiae, earumque Episcopi tanquam ad Archiepiscopum aut Metropolitanum pertinebant.
Dissert: 4. cap. 5. The Doctour tells us that, septem Ecclesiarum Angeli, non tantum Episcopi sed & Metropolitae i: e: Archi-Episcopi statuendi sunt. i: e: principalium urbium 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 ad quos provinciae integrae & in iis multarum inferiorum urbium Ecclesiae, earumque Episcopi tanquam ad Archiepiscopum aut Metropolitanum pertinebant.
The Doctor in this Chapter commences per saltum, and taking it for granted that he hath proved Diocesan Bishops sufficiently before, though he hath scarce spoken any one word to that purpose in his whole book, (for to prove one superintending in a Church by the name of Bishop, others acting in some kind of Subordination to him, by the name of Elders, and Presbyters, upon the Account of what hath been offered concerning the state of the Churches in those, days, will no way reach to the maintenance of this presumption) he sacrifices his pains to the Metropolitical Archi-Episcopacy dignity, which as we must suppose, is so clearly founded in Scripture and Antiquity, that they are as blind as Bats and Moles, who cannot see the ground and foundation of it.