A53688:1479
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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But Mr G. proceedeth to alleviate this charge, 1& informs us thus, That if the soundness & rottenness of Opinions, should be esteemed by the goodness or badness of the Lives of any parcel or number of Persons professing the same, as well the Opinion of Atheism which denieth the being of any God, as the opinion of Polytheism which affirmeth a plurality of Gods, must be esteemed better and more sound, than that which maintaineth the being of one God and of one only; for certain it is that there have been many Heathens Professors some of the one, & some of the other of those Opinions, who have quitted themselves upon fairer terms of honour and approbation in their lives than many Christians professing of the last opinion have done.
But Mr G. proceedeth to alleviate this charge, 1& informes us thus, That if the soundnes & rottennes of Opinions, should be esteemed by the goodnes or badnes of the Lives of any parcell or number of Persons professing the same, as well the Opinion of Atheisme which denyeth the being of any God, as the opinion of Polytheisme which affirmeth a plurality of Gods, must be esteemed better and more sound, than that which maintaineth the being of one God and of one only; for certaine it is that there have been many Heathens Professours some of the one, & some of the other of those Opinions, who have quitted themselves upon fairer tearmes of honour and approbation in their lives than many Christians professing of the last opinion have done.
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I am not willing to wring this Nose too far least blood should follow; The lives of many Atheists and Pagans are preferred before the lives of many professing Christianity. By Professors of Christianity, Mr Goodwin intendeth those who are so indeed, and seasoned with the Power of the Principles of that Religion, or such only as making an outward profession of it are indeed acted with Principles quite of another nature, which notwithstanding all their Profession rendereth them in the truth of the thing it self, enemies of the cross of Christ, their God being their belly, their glory being in their shame, and their end being destruction,