A53688:163
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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If some few congregations live together in love, and communion, and the fellowship of the Gospel in a City, he is stark blind that sees not that to be an Arch-Bishops See. The reason is as clear as his in the Comedian, for the freedom of his Wife. Sy: utinam Phrygiam uxorem meam unâ mecum videam liberam Dem: Optimam mulierem quidem. Sy: Et quidem nepoti tuo, hujus filio, hodiè, primam mammam dedit haec. Dem: herclè, verô, serio, siquidem primam dedit hand dubium quin emitti Aequam siet. Mic: ob eam rem? Dem: ob eam: and there is an end of the contest. The Doctor indeed hath sundry other Sections added to these foregoing, which as they concern times more remote from those who first received the Apostolical institutions, so I must ingeniously profess that I cannot see any thing, whereon to fasten a suspicion of a proof, so far as to call it into examination, and therefore I shall absolve the Reader from the penalty of this Digression.
If some few congregations live together in love, and communion, and the fellowship of the Gospel in a City, he is stark blind that sees not that to be an Arch-Bishops See. The reason is as cleare as his in the Comedian, for the freedome of his Wife. Sy: utinam Phrygiam uxorem meam unâ mecum videam liberam Dem: Optimam mulierem quidem. Sy: Et quidem nepoti tuo, hujus filio, hodiè, primam mammam dedit haec. Dem: herclè, verô, serio, siquidem primam dedit hand dubium quin emitti Aequam siet. Mic: ob eam rem? Dem: ob eam: and there is an end of the contest. The Doctour indeed hath sundry other Sections added to these foregoing, which as they concerne times more remote from those who first received the Apostolical institutions, so I must ingeniously profess that I cannot see any thing, wheron to fasten a suspition of a proof, so far as to call it into examination, and therefore I shall absolve the Reader from the penalty of this Digression.
The truth is when I first named Ignatius for a witness in the cause I am pleading for, I little thought of that excursion which I have occasionally been drawn out unto. When first I cast an eye some few months since upon the Dissertation of the Learned Doctor, in defence of Episcopacy. & saw it so Checkered with Greek and Latin, so full of quotations divine & humane, I began to think, that he dealt with his Adversaries, hastisque, clypeisque, & saxis grandibus, that there would be no standing before his shower of arguments: but after a little serious perusal, I