A53688:1771
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, For the close of this Discourse of our Author, charging this course of procedure with folly; viz. To give admonition to the use of means, when the end is certainly determined to issue upon the use of those means, he must first evince it as to the application of it to the business in hand, before I can close with him in the managing thereof: for the present I rather think the folly of this charge, as far as it looks towards the Doctrine under consideration to arise from other things. As
Secondly, For the close of this Discourse of our Author, charging this course of proceedure with folly; viz. To give admonition to the use of meanes, when the end is certainely determined to issue upon the use of those meanes, he must first evince it as to the application of it to the businesse in hand, before I can close with him in the managing thereof: for the present I rather think the folly of this charge, as far as it lookes towards the Doctrine under consideration to arise from other things. As
First, An Impertinent comparison instituted between God and man in their Admonitions and dealings with men; as though nothing might beseem him in Spiritual things of eternal concernement, but what is squared to the rules of our proceedings one towards another, in things Natural or Civill. And▪
First, An Impertinent comparison instituted between God and man in their Admonitions and dealings with men; as though nothing might beseeme him in Spirituall things of eternall concernement, but what is squared to the rules of our proceedings one towards another, in things Naturall or Civill. And▪
Secondly, A false supposal that the end is promised and assured to any, without or besides the use of means, or walking according to the rules, precepts, and instructions given for that purpose, or for Attainment of the end so promised. Now what folly there is to charge men to use means for the attaining of an end, when they are, although Exhorted, also Assured, that in their so