A53688:254
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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The evidence of this truth is such,1 that M. Goodwin is forced to say* Far be it from me to deny but that a man may very possibly attain unto a very strong and potent assurance, and that upon grounds every way sufficiently warrantable and good, that his faith is sound and saving: Cap: 9. Sect: 9. but unto this concession: he puts in a double exception.
The evidence of this truth is such,1 that M. Goodwin is forced to say* Farre be it from me to deny but that a man may very possibly attaine unto a very strong and potent assurance, and that upon grounds every way sufficiently warrantable and good, that his faith is sound and saving: Cap: 9. Sect: 9. but unto this concession: he puts in a double exception.
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- *Verè fidelit uti pro tempore praesenti de fidei & conscientiae suae integritate certus esse potest, ita & de salute sui & de salutiferâ Dei erga ipsum benevolentiâ pro illo tempore certus esse potest & debet.
First, That there is not one true believer of an hundred, yea of many thousands, who hath any such assurance of his Faith as is built upon solid and pregnant foundations.
I must (by his leave) enter my dissent hereunto, and as we have the liberty of our respective apprehensions so neither the one, nor the other prove any thing in the cause. Setting aside causes of desertion, great temptations, and trials, I hope through the riches of the grace, and tenderness of the love of their father,