A53688:200
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
What weight in those days was laid upon the Participation of the Sacramental figures of Grace, and what expressions are commonly used concerning them who had obtained that Privilege is known to all. Hence all baptised persons continuing in the Profession of the Faith, and Communion of the Church, they called, counted, esteemed truly regenerate, and justified, and spake so of them: Such as these they constantly affirm, might fall away into everlasting destruction: but yet what their judgment was, concerning their present state indeed, even then when they so termed them Regenerate, and Believers, in respect to the Sacraments of those Graces, Austin in sundry places clearly delivers his thoughts, to the undeceiving of all that are willing to be free: This he especially handles in his book de Correp: & Grat: Cap: 9: non erant (saith he) filii, etiam quando erant in professione & nomine filiorum • non quiae justitiam simulaverunt, sed quia in eâ non permanserunt: This Righteousness he esteemed not to be merely feigned, and hypocritical, but rather such as might truly entitle them to the state and Condition of the Children of God, in the sense before expressed.
What weight in those dayes was layd upon the Participation of the Sacramental figures of Grace, and what expressions are commonly used concerning them who had obtained that Priviledge is known to all. Hence all baptised persons continuing in the Profession of the Faith, and Communion of the Church, they called, counted, esteemed truly regenerate, and justified, and spake so of them: Such as these they constantly affirme, might fall away into everlasting destruction: but yet what their judgment was, concerning their present state indeed, even then when they so termed them Regenerate, and Believers, in respect to the Sacraments of those Graces, Austine in sundry places clearly delivers his thoughts, to the undeceiving of all that are willing to be free: This he especially handles in his book de Correp: & Grat: Cap: 9: non erant (saith he) filii, etiam quando erant in professione & nomine filiorum • non quiae justitiam simulaverunt, sed quia in eâ non permanserunt: This Righteousness he esteemed not to be meerly feigned, and hypocritical, but rather such as might truly intitle them to the state and Condition of the Children of God, in the sense before expressed.