A53688:247
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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For the First: these are days, wherein we have as sad and tremendous examples of Apostasy, 1back-sliding, and falling from high and glorious pitches in profession, as any Age can parallel: As many stars cast from heaven, As many trees plucked up by the roots,2 as many stately buildings by wind, rain, and storm,3 cast to the ground, as many Sons of perdition discovered, as many washed swine returning to their mire,4 as many Demases going after the present evil World,5 and men going out from the Church which were never truly and properly of it,6 as many Sons of the morning and Children of high illumination & gifts setting in darkness,7 & that of all sorts; as ever, in so short a space of time,8 since the name of Christ was known upon the Earth. What through the deviating of some to the ways of the World, 9and the Lusts of the flesh; what of others, to spiritual wickednesses and abominations: it is seldom that we see a Professor to hold out in the Glory of his Profession to the end. I shall not now discourse of the particular causes hereof, with the temptations and advantages of Satan, that seem to be peculiar to this season, but only thus take notice of the thing it self, as that which presseth for, and rendereth the consideration of the doctrine proposed not only seasonable but necessary.
For the First: these are daies, wherein we have as sad and tremendious examples of Apostacy, 1