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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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A Temptation then this is,1 and hath been of old to the Saints, disposed of by the manifold wisdom of God,2 to stir them up to take heed least they fall, 3to put them upon trying and examining,4 whether Christ be in them or no, 5and also to make out to those Fountains of establishment in his eternal Purpose and Gracious Promises, 6wherein their refreshments and reserves under such temptations do lye.7 And yet though our doctrine enforces us to conclude8 all such never to be sound believers in that peculiar notion and sense of that expression which shall instantly be declared,9 who totally and finally apostatize and fall off from the ways of God,10 yet is it exceedingly remote from being any true ground of shaking the Faith of those,11 who truly believe ⟨p. 4⟩any farther then shaking is useful for the right and thorough performance of that great Gospel duty of trial and self examination.
A Temptation then this is,1 and hath been of old to the Saints, disposed of by the manifold wisdome of God,