A53688:299
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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Now because Mr Goodwin, 1though he was not pleased to fix any orderly state of the Question under debate; (a course he hath also thought good to take in handling those other Heads of the Doctrine of the Gospel, wherein he hath chosen to walk (for the main with the Arminians) in Paths of difference from the Reformed Churches) yet having scattered up and down his Treatise, what his conceptions are of the Doctrine he doth oppose, as also what he asserts in the place & room thereof, and Upon what Principles, I shall briefly call, what he hath so delivered, both on the one hand, & on the other, to an account: to make the clearer way for the proof of the Truth, which indeed we own, and for the discovery of that which is brought forth to contest for Acceptance with it, upon the score of Truth and usefulness.
Now because Mr Goodwin, 1though he was not pleased to fixe any orderly state of the Question under debate; (a course he hath also thought good to take in handling those other Heads of the Doctrine of the Gospell, wherein he hath chosen to walke (for the maine with the Arminians) in Paths of difference from the Reformed Churches) yet having scatterd up and downe his Treatise, what his conceptions are of the Doctrine he doth oppose, as also what he asserts in the place & roome thereof, and Upon what Principles, I shall briefly call, what he hath so delivered, both on the one hand, & on the other, to an account: to make the clearer way for the proofe of the Truth, which indeed we own, and for the discovery of that which is brought forth to contest for Acceptance with it, upon the score of Truth and usefullnesse.
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