A53688:1797
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, 1That this Expression [they were of us] signifies that they were true Believers is presumed; of the uncertainty of this supposition we shall (saith he) give the like account.
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Ans. When we come to take M. Goodwin's farther Account, we shall be able (I make no doubt) to reckon with him, and to discharge his Bill; In the mean time, we say, that supposition [if they had been of us] (whence our Inference is made) evidently includes a fellowship and communion with the Apostle & true Believers in their fellowship with God, which is asserted as a certain Foundation of mens abiding in the communion of the Saints.
Ans. When we come to take M. Goodwin's farther Account, we shall be able (I make no doubt) to reckon with him, and to discharge his Bill; In the meane time, we say, that supposition [if they had been of us] (whence our Inference is made) evidently includes a fellowship and communion with the Apostle & true Believers in their fellowship with God, which is asserted as a certain Foundation of mens abiding in the communion of the Saints.
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