A53688:280
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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I suppose I shall not need to put my self to the labour to prove, or evince this Ground of our charitable procedure,1 in our thoughts of men professing the ways of God, though their hearts are not upright with him; But, says Mr Goodwin, To say that whilst they stood, men were indeed bound to judge them Believers: but by their declining, they discover themselves not to have been the men, is but to beg the Question, and that upon very ill terms to obtain it.
I suppose I shall not need to put my selfe to the labour to proove, or evince this Ground of our charitable procedure,1 in our thoughts of men professing the wayes of God, though their hearts are not upright with him; But, sayes Mr Goodwin, To say that whilst they stood, men were indeed bound to judge them Believers: but by their declining, they discover themselves not to have been the men, is but to begge the Question, and that upon very ill termes to obtain it.
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For my part,1 I find not in this Answer to that Objection (But they had the lineaments of true Believers and therefore we were bound to judge them so,) that, this did not at all prove them to be so, any begging of the Question, but rather a fair Answer given to their importune Request,2 that the appearance of the face, as far as the eyes of men can pierce, must needs conclude them in the eyes of God to answer that Appearance in the inward and hidden man of the heart.
For my part,