A53688:1684
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.
Now whereas it is offered by M. Goodwin Cap. 10. Sect: 27. pag. 194.1 That the context, or scope of the whole place, doth not invite such an Exposition as is usually insisted on, because (saith he) the intent and drift of the Apostle from verse 3. even to the end of the Chapter (as he that doth but run the context over may read) is not to show or argue, Whether the sons of God, may possibly in time so degenerate, as to live sinfully, and dye impenitently, but to evince this, that these who claim the great honour & privilege of being the Children of God, cannot justify or make good this claim neither unto others, nor unto themselves: but by an Holy and Christian Life and conversation, now it is one thing to argue, and prove, who are the Sons of God at present; another, whether they who are such at present must of necessity always so continue. The former is the Apostles theme in the Context, the latter he is wholly silent of.
Now whereas it is offered by M. Goodwin Cap. 10. Sect: 27. pag. 194.1 That the context, or scope of the whole place, doth not invite such an Exposition as is usually insisted on, because (saith he) the intent and drift of the Apostle from verse 3. even to the end of the Chapter (as he that doth but runne the context over may reade) is not to shew or argue, Whether the sonnes of God, may possibly in time so degenerate, as to live sinnefully, and dye impenitently, but to evince this, that these who claime the great honour & priviledge of being the Children of God, cannot justify or make good this claime neither unto others, nor unto themselves: but by an Holy and Christian Life and conversation, now it is one thing to argue, and prove, who are the Sonnes of God at present; another, whether they who are such at present must of necessity alwaies so continue. The former is the Apostles theame in the Context, the latter he is wholly silent of.
- 1§. 58.