A53688:306
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Let us now a little (in the next place) consider what Mr Goodwin gives in for that Persuasion,1 which in Opposition to the other before by him displayed, he contendeth with all his strength to advance; I do not doubt but all that are acquainted with his way of expression, (elato cothurno) will (as they may reasonably) expect to have it brought forth [Greek or Hebrew], adorned with all the Gallantry and Ornaments, that Words can contribute thereunto: for of them there is with him store to be used on all occasions: [Greek or Hebrew].
Let us now a little (in the next place) consider what Mr Goodwin gives in for that Perswasion,1 which in Opposition to the other before by him displayed, he contendeth with all his strength to advance; I doe not doubt but all that are acquainted with his way of expression, (elato cothurno) will (as they may reasonably) expect to have it brought forth 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, adorned with all the Gallantry and Ornaments, that Words can contribute thereunto: for of them there is with him store to be used on all occasions: 〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
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The sum of the Doctrine he is so enamoured on, 1he gives us Chap. 9. Sect. 21. Pag. 115. Longa est Fabula longae Ambagis) this is Caput reir;* It is not any danger of falling away in them, that are Saints and Believers, or probability of it, that he maintains but only possibility of it, such as there is, that sober and careful men may voluntarily throw themselves down from the tops of Houses