A53688:1741
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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THE seventh Argument which Mr Goodwin insisteth upon,1 in the 36. Section of his 13. Chapter contains one of the greatest Rarities, he hath to show in the whole pack, concerning the influence of the Doctrine of the Saints Apostasy into their Consolation in their walking with God, an undertaking so uncapable of any Logical Confirmation, as that though Mr Goodwin interweave his Discourse concerning it with a Syllogism, yet he quickly leaves that thorny path, and pursues it only with a Rhetorical flourish of words, found out and set in order to deceive; At the head then of his Discourse he placeth this Argument as it is called.
THE seaventh Argument which Mr Goodwin insisteth upon,1 in the 36. Section of his 13. Chapter containes one of the greatest Rarities, he hath to shew in the whole packe, concerning the influence of the Doctrine of the Saints Apostacy into their Consolation in their walking with God, an undertaking so uncapable of any Logicall Confirmation, as that though Mr Goodwin interweave his Discourse concerning it with a Sillogisme, yet he quickly leaves that thorney path, and pursues it only with a Rhetoricall flourish of words, found out and set in order to deceive; At the head then of his Discourse he placeth this Argument as it is called.
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That Doctrine whose genuine and proper tendency is to advance the peace and joy of the Saints in Believing, is of a natural sympathy, with the Gospel, and upon this account a truth; such is the Doctrine, which informeth the Saints of a possibility of their total and final falling away: Ergo.
That Doctrine whose genuine and proper tendency is to advance the peace and joy of the Saints in Believing, is of a naturall sympathy, with the Gospell, and upon this account a truth; such is the Doctrine, which informeth the Saints of a possibility of their totall and finall falling away: Ergo.