A53688:397
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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The iniquity of imposing Conditions and supposals on the Purpose of God, not in the least intimated by himself. 20. The whole acknowledged design of the Apostle everted, by the interposition of Cases and Conditions by M.G. 21. M. G. first attempt to prove the Decrees of God to be conditional considered: 1 Sam. 2. 3. to that end produced. 22. I Sam. 2. 30. farther considered, and its unsuitableness to illustrate Rom. 8. 32, 33 proved: interpretation of Scripture by comparing of places agreeing neither in design, word, nor matter, rejected. The places insisted on proved not to be parallel, by sundry particular instances. Some observations from the words rejected. 23. What act of God intended in those words to Eli, I said indeed: no purpose or decree of God in them declared. Any such purpose as to the house of Eli by sundry Arguments disproved. 24. No purpose of God in the words insisted on farther manifested. They are expressive of the Promise or Law concerning the Priesthood Numb. 25. 11, 12, 13. 25. More especially relating unto Exod. 28. 43. and Ch. 29. 9. The import of that Promise, Law, or Statute, cleared: the example of Jonah Preaching, and Gods commands to Abraham and Pharaoh. 26. The universal disproportion between the Texts compared by Mr G. both as to matter and expression farther manifested. 27. Instances or cases of Saul and Paul to prove conditional Purposes in God considered. 28. Conditional purposes argued from conditional threatenings: the weakness of that Argument: the nature of Divine threatenings: what Will of God, or what of the Will of God is declared by them: no proportion between Eternal purpose, sand Temporal threatenings: the issue of the vindication of our Argument from the foregoing exceptions. 29. M.G's endeavour to maintain his Exposition of the place under consideration: the Text perverted. 30. Several evasions of M. G. from the force of this Argument considered 31. His Arguments to prove no certain or infallible connection between Calling, Justification, and Glorification, weighed and answered. His first from the scope of the Chapter, and the use of Exhortations; the Question begged. 32. His Second from examples of Persons called, and not justified: The Question argued, begged; no proof insisted on, but the interposition of his own Hypothesis. How we are called irresistibly and in what sense.