A53688:241
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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CAP. I.
1. The various thoughts of men concerning the Doctrine proposed to consideration. 2. The great concernment of it (how ever stated) on all hands confessed. 3. Some special causes pressing to the present handling of it. 4. The fearful Back-sliding of many in these days. 5: The great offence given, and taken thereby: with the provision made for its removal. 6: The nature of that offence and temptation thence arising considered. 7: Answer to some Arguings of Mr G. c: 9. §. 8, 9, 10, 11. from thence against the truth proposed. The use of trials and shakings: Grounds of believers assurance that they are so. 8. The same farther argued and debated. 9: Of the Testimony of a mans own conscience concerning his uprightness, and what is required thereunto. 10. 1 Joh: 3. 7. considered: of the rule of self-judging, with principles of settlement for true Believers, notwithstanding the Apostasies of eminent Professors. (2) 11. Corrupt teachings rendering the handling of this Doctrine necessary: its enemies of old and of late. 12: The particular undertaking of Mr G. proposed to consideration. 13: An entrance into the stating of the Question. 14. 15. The terms of the Question explained: of Holiness in its several acceptations. Created holiness, Original or Adventitious. Complete or Inchoate. Typical by dedications, Real by purification. 16. Holiness Evangelical, either so indeed, or by estimation. 17. Real Holiness, partial or universal. 18, 19. The partakers of the first or Temporary Believers, not true Believers: maintained against Mr G. Ground of judging professors to be true believers. 20. Mat. 7. 20. Considered, what is the rule of judging men therein given. 21, 22. What knowledge of the Faith of others is to be obtained. 23: What is meant by Perseverance: How in Scripture it is expressed. 24. The grounds of it pointed at. 25: What is intended by falling away: whether it be possible the Spirit of Grace may be lost: or 26, 27, 28: The habit of it, and how. 29, 30: The state of the Controversy as laid down by Mr G. 31: The vanity thereof discovered. 32, 33, 34: His judgement about Believers falling away examined: what principles and means of Perseverance he grants to them. 35: The enemies of our Perseverance: Indwelling sin in particular considered: 36: No possibility of preservation upon Mr G grounds, demonstrated. 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42: