A53688:426
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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4. Fourthly, That conditional Purposes concerning Perseverance, are either Impossible, implying contradictions, or Ludicrous, even to an unfitness for a Stage. But of these and such like, as they occasionally fall in, in the ensuing Discourse.
4. Fourthly, That conditionall Purposes concerning Perseverance, are either Impossible, implying contradictions, or Ludicrous, even to an unfitnes for a Stage. But of these and such like, as they occasionally fall in, in the insuing Discourse.
This foundation being laid,1 I come to what was Secondly proposed, namely, to manifest by an Induction of particular Instances, the engagement of these Absolute and Immutable Purposes of God, as to the Preservation of the Saints in his Favour to the End: and whatsoever is by Mr Goodwin excepted, as to the former Doctrine of the Decrees and Purposes of God, in that part of his Treatise, which falls under our consideration, shall in the vindication of the respective places of Scripture to be insisted on, be discussed.
This foundation being laid,1 I come to what was Secondly proposed, namely, to manifest by an Induction of particular Instances, the ingagement of these Absolute and Immutable Purposes of God, as to the Preservation of the Saints in his Favour to the End: and whatsoever is by Mr Goodwin excepted, as to the former Doctrine of the Decrees and Purposes of God, in that part of his Treatise, which falls under our consideration, shall in the vindication of the respective places of Scripture to be insisted on, be discussed.
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