A53688:1477
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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Nextly,1 Sect. 26. Mr Goodwin entereth upon his defensative to the charge against his Doctrine, whose Foundation is laid in the unworthiness of its Authors in this Nation before it fell upon his hand. These he confesseth to be the worst of our late Bishops, with such as Romanized, & tyrannized among them, with their Clergy creatures & favourites, Persons many of them of superstition, looseness & much profaneness. Of the Apology shaped for the clearing of the Doctrine he maintaineth from a participation with them in their unworthiness, there are three parts. In the 1. whereof, he denieth, that this Doctrine did any way induce them to the looseness that was found upon them: In the other two, giveth as many Reasons of their receiving of it, and cleaving to it.
Nextly,1 Sect. 26. Mr Goodwin entreth upon his defensative to the charge against his Doctrine, whose Foundation is laid in the unworthinesse of its Authors in this Nation before it fell upon his hand. These he confesseth to be the worst of our late Bishops, with such as Romanized, & •yrannized among them, with their Clergie creatures & favorites, Persons many of thē of superstition, loosenes & much profanenes. Of the Apologie shaped for the clearing of the Doctrine he maintaineth from aparticipation with them in their unworthinesse, there are three parts. In the 1. whereof, he denieth, that this Doctrine did any way induce them to the loosenesse that was found upon them: In the other two, giveth as many Reasons of their receiving of it, and cleaving to it.
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As for the first part, I shall willingly assent to him that the Holiness or unholiness of Professors: is not to be charged on the Religion they profess (I mean appearing Holiness in the profession of it,) unless there be an evidence of a connection betwixt their principles & practises; which in this case, to us & our apprehension of them who charge this Doctrine with the miscarriages of those men, there is; At least we may insist on this, that there is a suitableness in the whole System of the Doctrine, whereof the Apostasy of the Saints is an eminent parcel, to that frame of Spirit which is in men of loose and superstitious ways, enemies of the Grace of God and power of Godliness. Neither can there any other reason be tolerably assigned or alleged, for the embracement of that Doctrine, by those Persons formerly mentioned, but only their ignorance of, & envy to the great Mysteries of the Gospel, the Covenant