A53688:374
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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One of these Testimonies,1 even that mentioned in the first place: Mal. 3. 6. from whence this Argument doth arise, is proposed to be considered, and answered by Mr Goodwin, Cap. 10. Sect. 40, 41. Pag. 205, 206, 207. A brief removal of his Exceptions to our inference from hence, will leave the whole to its native vigour, & the truth therein contained to its own steadfastness in the hand and power of that Demonstration. Thus then he proposeth that place of the Prophet, and our Argument from thence, whereunto he shapes his Answer: For the words of Mal: I am the Lord, I change not; from which it is wont to be argued, that when God once Loves a person, he never ceaseth to love him, because this must needs argue a changeableness in him, in respect of his Affection: and consequently the Saints cannot fall away finally from his Grace, (so he.)—
One of these Testimonies,1 even that mentioned in the first place: Mal. 3. 6. from whence this Argument doth arise, is proposed to be considered, and answered by Mr Goodwin, Cap. 10. Sect. 40, 41. Pag. 205, 206, 207. A briefe removall of his Exceptions to our inference frō hence, will leave the whole to its native vigour, & the truth therein contained to its own stedfastnes in the hand and power of that Demonstration. Thus then he proposeth that place of the Prophet, and our Argument from thence, whereunto he shapes his Answer: For the words of Mal: I am the Lord, I change not; from which it is wont to be argued, that when God once Loves a person, he never ceaseth to love him, because this must needs argue a changeablenesse in him, in respect of his Affection: and consequently the Saints cannot fall away sinally from his Grace, (so he.)—
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