A53688:1375
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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Sect. 110. He Objects farther to himself, That in sundry places of Scripture, as 1 Cor. 10. 12, 13. Phil. 2. 12, 13. Heb. 6. 4, 5, 9. there are Promises of Perseverance, and Exhortations unto it joined together, and therefore men who deny a regular and due consistency between them do impute folly and weakness to the Holy Ghost; Whereunto he Answers sundry things to the end of the eleventh Section. As,
Sect. 110. He Objects farther to himselfe, That in sundry places of Scripture, as 1 Cor. 10. 12, 13. Phil. 2. 12, 13. Heb. 6. 4, 5, 9. there are Promises of Perseverance, and Exhortations unto it joyned together, and therefore men who deny a regular and due consistency between them do impute folly and weakenesse to the Holy Ghost; Whereunto he Answers sundry things to the end of the eleventh Section. As,
- 1§. 48.
First they are many degrees nearer to the guilt of the crime specified, who affirm the conjunction mentioned to be found in the said Scriptures, than they who deny the Legitimacy of such a conjunction; the incongruity of the conjunction hath been sufficiently evinced, but that any such conjunction is to be found either in the Scriptures coted or in any others is no mans vision, but his who hath darkness for vision.