A53688:302
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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Neither can it with the least colour of Truth be pretended, that these are Consequences, which he urgeth the Doctrine he opposeth withal, and not his Apprehensions of the Doctrine it self. For neither doth he in any place in his whole Treatise, hold it out in any other shape, but is uniform, and constant to himself, in expressing his notion of it; nor doth he indeed almost use any Argument against it, but those that suppose this to be the true state of the Controversy, which he hath proposed. But whether this indeed be the Doctrine of the Perseverance of Saints, which Mr Goodwin so importunately cries out against, upon a brief consideration of some of the particulars mentioned, will quickly appear.
Neither can it with the least colour of Truth be pretended, that these are Consequences, which he urgeth the Doctrine he opposeth withall, and not his Apprehensions of the Doctrine it selfe. For neither doth he in any place in his whole Treatise, hold it out in any other shape, but is uniforme, and constant to himselfe, in expreffing his notion of it; nor doth he indeed almost use any Argument against it, but those that suppose this to be the true state of the Cōtroversy, which he hath proposed. But whether this indeed be the Doctrine of the Perseverance of Saints, which Mr Goodwin so importunately cryes out against, upon a briefe consideration of some of the particulars mentioned, will quickly appeare.
First then,1 doth this Doctrine promise with height of Assurance, that under what looseness, or vile practices soever men do live, they shall have Exemption from punishment? wherein I pray? in that it promiseth the Saints of God, that through his Grace they shall be preserved from such looseness and evil practises, as would expose them to Eternal punishment?2 Doth it teach men, that it is vain to use the means of mortification because, 3