A53688:1754
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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Secondly that the consequent of the supposition in the inference made upon it, is not so clear to me as to Mr Goodwin. viz. Suppose any Doctrine to be false, whatsoever Doctrine is set up in opposition to it, is true; I have known and so hath Mr Goodwin also, when the truth hath lain between opposite Doctrines, assaulted by both, entertained by neither; with these Observations I pass the Major of this Syllogism the Minor he thus confirms.
Secondly that the consequent of the supposition in the inference made upon it, is not so cleare to me as to Mr Goodwin. viz. Suppose any Doctrine to be false, whatsoever Doctrine is set up in opposition to it, is true; I have knowne and so hath Mr Goodwin also, when the truth hath layen between opposite Doctrines, assaulted by both, entertained by neither; with these Observations I passe the Major of this Sillogisme the Minor he thus confirmes.
If the Saints be in no possibility of being finally overcome by Satan, or of Miscarrying in the great and most important business of their Salvation by his snares and subtleties,1 all that operousnesse, and diligence of the Holy Ghost, in those late mentioned Addressements of his unto them, in order to their final conquest over Satan, will be found of very light consequence, of little concernement to them: yea if the said Addressements of the Holy Ghost, be compared, with the State and Condition of the Saints, as the said Doctrine of Perseverance representeth and affirmeth it to be, the utter uselessness, and impertinency of them, will much more evidently appear.
If the Saints be in no possibility of being finally overcome by Satan, or of Miscarrying in the great and most important businesse of their Salvation by his snares and subtilties,1 all that operousnesse, and diligence of the Holy Ghost, in those late mentioned Addressements of his unto them, in order to their finall conquest over Satan, will be found of very light consequence, of little concernement to them: yea if the said Addressements of the Holy Ghost, be compared, with the State and Condition of the Saints, as the said Doctrine of Perseverance representeth and affirmeth it to be, the utter uselesnesse, and impertinency of them, will much more evidently appeare.