A53688:215
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.
To bring them in, I desire that one who (though none of Them) was eminent in his undertakings for a mixture of Divinity, and Law, in those days wherein they had their eminent rise and Original may be heard. And that is Gratian, who after his manner hath Collected many things to the Purpose in hand: p. 2. c. 33. Q 3. de pan. dis. 2: Charitas (saith he) est juncta Deo inseperabiliter, & unita, & in omnibus semper invicta. And; Electi quippe sic ad Bonum tendunt, ut ad mala perpetranda non redeant; &, Potest discursus, & mobilitas Spiritûs sic intelligi. In Sanctorum quippe eor dibus juxtà quasdam virtutes semper permanet; juxta quasdam verò recessurus venit, venturus recedit:in fide etenim, & Spe, & Charitate, & bonis aliis, sine quibus ad Coelestem patriam non petest veviri (sicut est H•militas, Castitas, justitia atque Msericor dia) perfectorum corda non deseri•: in Prophetiae verè virtute, doctrina facundiâ, Miraculorum […], suis aliquanda addest, aliquandose suber […], Answering the objection, of the Spirits departure from them, on whom he is bestowed, He distinguisheth of the respects, upon the account whereof, he may be said so to do; in respect of some Common gifts (saith he) he may withdraw himself from them on whom he is bestowed, but not in respect of Habitual Sanctifying grace.
To bring them in, I desire that one who (though none of Them) was eminent in his undertakings for a mixture of Divinity, and Law, in those dayes wherin they had their eminent rise and Original may be heard. And that is Gratian, who after his manner hath Collected many things to the Purpose in hand: p. 2. c. 33. Q 3. de pan. dis. 2: Charitas (saith he) est juncta Deo inseperabiliter, & unita, & in omnibus semper invicta. And; Electi quippe sic ad Bonum tendunt, ut ad mala perpetranda non redeant; &, Potest discursus, & mobilitas Spiritûs sic intelligi. In Sanctorum quippe eor dibus juxtà quasdam virtutes semper permanet; juxta quasdam verò recessurus venit, venturus recedit:in fide etenim, & Spe, & Charitate, & bonis aliis, sine quibus ad Coelestem patriam non petest veuiri (sicut est H•militas, Castitas, justitia atque Msericor dia) perfectorum corda non deseri•: in Prophetiae verè virtute, doctrina facundiâ, Miraculorum 〈…〉, suis aliquanda adest, aliquandose suber 〈…〉, Answering the objection, of the Spirits departure from them, on whom he is bestowed, He distinguisheth of the respects, upon the account whereof, he may be said so to do; in respect of some Common gifts (sayth he) he may withdraw himselfe from them on whom he is bestowed, but not in respect of Habitual Sanctifying grace.