A53688:205
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
After these was Gregory: 1: who Lib. 1. Epist 99: speaks to the same purpose, with them in these words; Redemptor noster, Dei hominumque mediator, Conditionis Humanae non immemor, sic imis summa conjungit, ut ipse in unitate permanens ita Temporalia, occulto Instinctu, piâ consulens moderation disponat, quatenus de ejus manu antiquus Host is nullatenus rapiat, quos ante Secula intra Sinum matris Ecclesiae adunandos esse praescivit; nam et si quisquam eorum inter quos degit, Statibus motus ad Tempus ut palmes titubet, radix tamen rectae Fidei, quae ex occulto prodit, divino judicio virens manet, quae accepto Tempore fructum de se ostentare valeat, qui latebat. This is the sum of what we contend for: viz: that all those whom God hath predestinated to be added to the Church, receiving a saving faith, though they may be shaken, yet on that account, the Root abides firm, their Faith never utterly perisheth, but in due time brings forth accepted fruits again.
After these was Gregory: 1: who Lib. 1. Epist 99: speakes to the same purpose, with them in these words; Redemptor noster, Dei hominumque mediator, Conditionis Humanae non immemor, sic imis summa conjungit, ut ipse in unitate permanens ita Temporalia, occulto Instinctu, piâ consulens moderatione disponat, quatenus de ejus manu antiquus Host is nullatenus rapiat, quos ante Secula intra Sinum matris Ecclesiae adunandos esse praescivit; nam et si quisquam eorum inter quos degit, Statibus motus ad Tempus ut palmes titubet, radix tamen rectae Fidei, quae ex occulto prodit, divino judicio virens manet, quae accepto Tempore fructum de se ostentare valeat, qui latebat. This is the summe of what we contend for: viz: that all those whom God hath predestinated to be added to the Church, receiving a saving faith, though they may be shaken, yet on that account, the Root abides firme, their Faith never utterly perisheth, but in due time brings forth accepted fruits againe.
And most expressive to our purpose is that discourse of his which you have, Lib. 34. Moral. Cap. 8: saith He, Aurum, quod pravis Diaboli persuasionibus quasi lutum sterni potuerit, Aurum ante Dei Oculos nunquam fuit, qui enim Seduci quandoque non reversuri possunt, quasi habitam Sanctitatem ante ocules hominum videntur amittere, sed eam ante oculos Dei nunquam habuerunt.