A53688:1758
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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Or is it not the part of a very weak and simple person to admonish a man and that in a most serious and solemn manner of a danger threatening him, or hanging over his head, and withal to instruct him with great variety of direction and caution how to escape this danger, when as both himself knows, and the person admonished knows likewise that it is a thing altogether impossible that ever the danger should befall him, or the evil against which he is so solemnly cautioned come upon him? Therefore those who make the Holy Ghost to have part and fellowship in such weakness as this are most insufferably injurious unto him.
Or is it not the part of a very weake and simple person to admonish a man and that in a most serious and solemne manner of a danger threatning him, or hanging over his head, and withall to instruct him with great variety of direction and caution how to escape this danger, when as both himselfe knows, and the person admonished knowes likewise that it is a thing altogether impossible that ever the danger should befall him, or the evill against which he is so solemnely cautioned come upon him? Therefore those who make the Holy Ghost to have part and fellowship in such weaknesse as this are most insufferably injurious unto him.
Ans. To support the Stage for to act this part of the pageant in hand upon,1 there are many supposals fixed by our Author, that are to bear up the weight of the whole, which upon trial will appear to arrant false pretences, painted antics, that have not the least strength or efficacy for the end and purpose whereunto they are applied.
Ans. To support the Stage for to act this part of the pageant in hand upon,1 there are many supposalls fixed by our Author, that are to beare up the weight of the whole, which upon tryall will appeare to arrant false pretences, painted anticks, that have not the least strength or efficacy for the end and purpose whereunto they are applied.