A53688:1431
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.
First that there is an Instinct or inspiration of Nature in Children to yield Obedience to their Parents.
First that there is an Instinct or inspiration of Nature in Children to yeild Obediedce to their Parents.
Secondly that there is no such Spiritual Instinct or inclination in the Saints to yield Obedience to God.
Secondly that there is no such Spirituall Instinct or inclination in the Saints to yeild Obedience to God.
Thirdly, that the Obedience of the Saints ariseth merely and solely from such Considerations of the Reason of that Obedience, which they apprehend in contradiction to any such genuine principles as might incline their hearts thereunto.
Thirdly, that the Obedience of the Saints ariseth meerely and solley from such Considerations of the Reason of that Obedience, which they apprehend in contradiction to any such genuine principles as might incline their hearts thereunto.