A53688:1464
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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The World of men professing the Reformed Religion have long since in their Judgments determined this difference, nor doth it deserve any farther debate.
Secondly, That those who maintain the Perseverance of the Saints, are sore indeed in their Exhortations to Holiness, 1but contemptible in their Principles upon which they should build those Exhortations, Is an insinuation that Mr Goodwin sometimes makes use of, handsomely to beg the thing in Question, when he despairs to carry it by any convincing Argument in a fair dispute: That the Principles of this Doctrine are eminently serviceable, to the furtherance and promotion of Holiness, hath been formerly evinced beyond all possibility of Contradiction from them, who in any measure understand what true Godliness is, and wherein it doth consist. Neither ought Mr Goodwin if he would be esteemed as a man disputing for his persuasion, so often to beg the thing in Question; knowing full well, that he hath not so deserved of them with whom he hath to do, as to obtain any thing of this nature, on those terms at their hands.
Secondly, That those who maintaine the Perseverance of the Saints, are sore indeed in their Exhortations to Holinesse, 1but contemptible in their Principles upon which they should build those Exhortations, Is an insinuation that Mr Goodwin sometimes makes use of, handsomely to beg the thing in Question, when he despaires to carry it by any convincing Argument in a faire dispute: That the Principles of this Doctrine are eminently serviceable, to the furtherance and promotion of Holinesse, hath been formerly evinced beyond all possibility of Contradiction from them, who in any measure understand what true Godlinesse is, and wherein it doth consist. Neither ought Mr Goodwin if he would be esteemed as a man disputing for his perswasion, so often to begge the thing in Question; knowing fullwell, that he hath not so deserved of them with whom he hath to do, as to obtaine any thing of this nature, on those tearmes at their hands.