A53688:42
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 Course & Condition of my procedure with him, whether it be such as becometh Christian modesty, and sobriety, with an allowance of those ingredients of zeal, in contending for the truth, which in such cases the Holy Ghost gives a command for, is referred to the Judgment of all, who are concerned, and account themselves so, in the things of God. As to any bitterness of expression, personal reflections by application of Satirical invectives, I know nothing by my self, and yet I dare not account, that I am hereby justified. The calm and indifferent Reader, not sensible of those commotions, which the discovery of Sophistical evasions, pressing of inconsequent consequences, bold Assertions &c: will sometimes raise in the most candid and ingenuous mind, may (and especially if he be an observer of failings in that kind) espy once and again, some signs and appearances of such exasperations as ought to have been allayed with a spirit of meekness, before the thoughts that stirred them up, had been turned out of doors, in the expressions observed. Although I am not conscious of the delivery of my self in any terms, intimating a Captivity under the power of such a snare for a moment, yet what shall to the Christian Reader occur of such a seeming tendency, I humbly refer it to his judgment, being content to suffer loss in any hay or stubble what ever, that I may have laid upon the foundation of truth, which I am sure is firmly fixed by God himself, in the business in hand.
The Course & Condition of my procedure with him, whether it be such as becometh Christian modesty, and sobriety, with an allowance of those ingredients of zeal, in contending for the trut, hwhich in such cases the Holy Ghost gives a command for, is referred to the Judgment of all, who are concerned, and account themselves so, in the things of God. As to any bitterness of expression, personal reflections by application of Satyrical invectives, I know nothing by my selfe, and yet I dare not account, that I am hereby justified. The calme and indifferent Reader, not sensible of those commotions, which the discovery of Sophistical evasions, pressing of inconsequent consequences, bold Assertions &c: will sometimes raise in the most candid and ingenuous mind, may (and especially if he be an observer of failings in that kind) espie once and againe, some signes and appearances of such exasperations as ought to have been allayed with a spirit of meekness, before the thoughts that stirred them up, had been turned out of doores, in the expressions observed. Although I am not conscious of the delivery of my selfe in any termes, intimating a Captivitie under the power of such a snare for a moment, yet what shall to the Christian Reader occurre of such a seeming tendency, I humbly refer it to his judgment, being content to suffer loss in any hay or stubble what ever, that I may have layd upon the foundation of truth, which I am sure is firmly fixed by God himselfe, in the business in hand.