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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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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.
1. That though I grant the first,1 that we may very easily be, and often are deceived in our estimate of righteous persons, yet I do not conceive the inference to be enforced from that expression, (let no man deceive you) the Holy Ghost using it frequently, or what is equivalent thereunto, not so much to caution men in a dubious thing, wherein possibly they may be mistaken, as in a way of detestation, scorn, and rejection of what is opposite to that which he is urging upon his Saints, which he presseth as a thing of the greatest evidence and clearness, as 1 Cor: 6. 9. chap: 15. 32. Gal: 6. 7. neither is any thing more intended in this expression of the Apostle, then in that of 1 Cor: 6. 9. be not deceived, no unrighteous person shall inherit the Kingdom of heaven: so here, no person not giving himself up to the pursuit of righteousness in the General drift and scope of his life, (cases extraordinary and particular acts, being alway in such rules excepted) is, or is to be accounted a righteous man.
1. That though I grant the first,1 that we may very easily be, and often are deceived in our estimate of righteous persons, yet I doe not conceive the inference to be inforced from that expression, (let no man deceive you) the Holy Ghost using it frequently, or what is equivalent thereunto, not so much to caution men in a dubious thing, wherein possibly they may be mistaken, as in a way of detestation, scorne, and rejection of what is opposite to that which he is urging upon his Saints, which he presseth as a thing of the greatest evidence and cleernesse, as 1 Cor: 6. 9. chap: 15. 32. Gal: 6. 7. neither is any thing more intended in this expression of the Apostle, then in that of 1 Cor: 6. 9. be not deceived, no unrighteous person shall inherit the Kingdome of heaven: so here, no person not giving himselfe up to the pursuit of righteousnesse in the Generall drift and scope of his life, (cases extraordinary and particular acts, being alway in such rules excepted) is, or is to be accounted a righteous man.
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