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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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Either prove that God doth change, which he saith he doth not, or that the Saints may perish, though he change not, which he affirms they cannot; or you speak not to the business in hand.
Either prove that God doth change, which he saith he doth not, or that the Saints may perish, though he change not, which he affirmes they cannot; or you speake not to the businesse in hand.
The 41.1 Section contains a discourse, too long to be transcribed, unless it were more to the purpose in hand, then it is. I shall therefore briefly give the Reader a taste of some Paralogisms, that run from one end of it, to the other, and then in particular roll away every stone, that seems to be of any weight, for the detaining captive the Truth, in whose vindication we are engaged. First, from the beginning to the ending of the whole Discourse, the thing in question, is immodestly begged, and many inferences made upon a supposal, that Believers may become Impenitent Apostates, which being the sole thing under debate, ought not it self to be taken as granted, and so made a proof of it self. It is by us Asserted, that those who are once freely accepted of God in Christ, shall not be so forsaken, as to become impenitent Apostates: and that upon the account of the Immutability of God, which he hath engaged to give Assurance thereof. To evince the falsity of this, it is much pressed, that if they become impenitent Apostates, God, without the least shadow of mutability, may cast them off, and condemn them; which is a kind of reasoning, that will scarce conclude to the Understanding of an intelligent Reader: & yet this sandy Foundation is thought sufficient, to bear up many Rhetorical expressions, concerning the Changeableness of God, in respect of sundry of his Attributes, if he should not destroy such Impenitent Apostates, as 'tis splendidly supposed, Believers may be; (ô Famâ ingens, ingentior armis Vir Trojan) This way of Disputing will scarce succeed you, in this great undertaking.
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