A53688:1645
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Thirdly, for M. Goodwins criticism upon the word [Greek or Hebrew]: it is hardly worth taking notice of.
Thirdly, for M. Goodwins criticisme upon the word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉: it is hardly worth taking notice of.
For First, If by taking, there be meant taking away, the sense must be, that they are first taken away from being members of Christ (the word expressing a time past in that tendency) and then, made members of an Harlot: which First, is not suited to the mind of M. Goodwin, who endeavours to prove their ceasing to be members of Christ, by becoming members of an Harlot; the efficient cause of their ceasing to be joined to Christ, consisting in their being joined with an Harlot. And Secondly, destroys the whole scope of the Apostles reasoning in the place, from the great unworthiness of such a way, or practice, as making the members of Christ, to be the members of an Harlot, because none should so be made, but those who had first creased to be members of Christ; and so his Assertion instead of an effectual persuasive, should upon the matter be entangled in a contradiction to it self.
For First, If by taking, there be meant taking away, the sence must be, that they are first taken away from being members of Christ (the word expressing a time past in that tendency) and then, made members of an Harlot: which First, is not suited to the mind of M. Goodwin, who endeavours to prove their ceasing to be members of Christ, by becoming members of an Harlot; the efficient cause of their ceasing to be joyned to Christ, consisting in their being joyned with an Harlot. And Secondly, destroyes the whole scope of the Apostles reasoning in the place, from the great unworthinesse of such a way, or practice, as making the members of Christ, to be the members of an Harlot, because none should so be made, but those who had first creased to be members of Christ; and so his Assertion instead of an effectuall perswasive, should upon the matter be entangled in a contradiction to it selfe.