A53688:1425
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: 15. is spent in an Answer endeavoured to an Objection, placed in the beginning of it, in these words.
If it be farther demanded, But doth it not argue servility in men, to be drawn by the Iron cord of the Fear of Hell, to do what is their duty to do? Or doth any ⟨p. 300⟩other Service or Obedience become Sons and Children, but only that which is free and proceedeth from Love?
If it be farther demanded, But doth it not argue servility in men, to be drawn by the Iron cord of the Feare of Hell, to doe what is their duty to doe? Or doth any ⟨p. 300⟩other Service or Obedience become Sonnes and Children, but only that which is free and proceedeth from Love?
Hereunto you have a threefold Answer returned.
First, That God requires that it should be so; which is a downright begging of the Question.