A53688:252
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.
First,1 God who hath promised to make all things work together for good to them that love him, 2in his infinite Love and Wisdom is pleased to exercise them with great variety,3 both within and without, in reference to themselves and others,4 for the accomplishing towards them all the5 good pleasure of his goodness & carrying them on in that holy humble depending6 frame,7 which is needful for the receiving from him those gracious supplies,8 9without which it is impossible they should be preserved.10 To this end are they often exposed to winnowings of fierce winds and shakings by more dreadful blasts,11 then any breathes in this consideration of the Apostatizing of professors though of Eminency.12 Not that God is delighted with their fears & jealousies, 13which yet he knows under such dispensations they must conflict with all,14 but with the trial and exercise of their Graces whereunto he calls them; that's his Glory,