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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 design and aim of our Establishment by the Spirit is, he tells us, that we be not shaken or moved from the saith of Christ: So establisheth […] not to depart & fall away from the faith. And that the argument which he insistion, from what we have presently received ⟨image 22⟩to an assurance of abode in our Condition, to the enjoyment of the full inheritance is not contemptible in the Cause in hand, as is further manifested in the treatise it self.
The designe and aime of our Establishment by the Spirit is, he tells us, that we be not shaken or moved from the saith of Christ: So establisheth 〈…〉 not to depart & fall away from the faith. And that the argument which he insistion, from what we have presently received ⟨image 22⟩to an assurance of abode in our Condition, to the enjoyment of the full inheritanceis not contemtible in the Cause in hand, as is further manifested in the treatise it selfe.
And these instances may suffice for the first period of time mentioned, before the rising of the Pelagian heresy, of which, & those others of the same kind that might be produced, though they may not seem so full, and expressive to the point under Consideration, as these which follow after, yet concerning those Authors and their testimonies, these two things may be asserted.
1 That though some Expressions may be gathered from some of the Writers within the space of Time mentioned, that seem to allow a possibility of defection, and Apostasy in Believers, occasioned all of them by the general use of that word, and the taking in the several accounts, whereon men both in the Gospel, and in common use are so called, yet there is no one of them that ever ascribed the perseverance of them, who Actually & eventually persevere, to such grounds and principles as Mr. Goodwin doth, and which the Reader shall find at large by him insisted on, in the ensuing treatise. The truth is, his maintaining of the Saints perseverance is as bad, if not worse, then his maintaining their Apostasy.