A53688:1451
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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AS to the matter in hand,1 about the usefulness of the Doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints, in, and unto the Ministry of the Gospel, and the obstruction pretended to be laid unto it thereby, It may be somewhat conducing and of Concernment to consider who the Persons are, and were, and what hath been and is the presence of God with them, in their Ministry who have been Assertors and Zealous maintainers of this Doctrine: And withal who they were, and what they have been in their Ministry, and the Dispensation of the Word committed unto them, who have risen up in opposition thereunto; How also those different Parties have approved their Profession to the World, and acquitted themselves in their Generation in their walking with God, may be worth our Consideration; doubtless, if the Doctrine, whose declaration and defence we have thus far engaged in, be of such a pernicious tendency, as is pretended, so destructive to Gospel Obedience, and so evidently rendering that great Ordinance of the Ministry useless, it may be traced to its product of these effects, in some measure, in the Lives, Conversations and Ministry of those, who have most zealously espoused it, most earnestly contended for it, and been most given up to the form and mould thereof. It were a thing every way miraculous if any Root should for the most part bring forth fruit disagreeing to the nature of it.
AS to the matter in hand,1 about the usefulnesse of the Doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints, in, and unto the Ministry of the Gospell, and the obstruction pretended to be laid unto it thereby, It may be somewhat conducing and of Concernment to consider who the Persons are, and were, and what hath been and is the presence of God with them, in their Ministry who have been Assertors and Zealous maintainers of this Doctrine: And withall who they were, and what they have been in their Ministry, and the Dispensation of the Word committed unto them, who have risen up in opposition thereunto; How also those different Partyes have approved their Profession to the World, and acquitted themselves in their Generation in their walking with God, may be worth our Consideration; doubtlesse, if the Doctrine, whose declaration and defence we have thus far ingaged in, be of such a pernicious tendency, as is pretended, so destructive to Gospell Obedience, and so evidently rendering that great Ordinance of the Ministry uselesse, it may be traced to its product of these effects, in some measure, in the Lives, Conversations and Ministry of those, who have most zealously espoused it, most earnestly contended for it, and been most given up to the forme and mould thereof. It were a thing every way miraculous if any Roote should for the most part bring forth fruite disagreeing to the nature of it.