A53688:471
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. (Thirdly) there are two things, that Mr Goodwin insists upon to make good his arguing from this place.
First, that these words (I said indeed) hold out the real Purpose and Decree of God.
First, that these words (I said indeed) hold out the reall Purpose and Decree of God.
Secondly, that in the Promise mentioned, there was no Condition expressed, or required to the Execution, or Performance of it.
By the First he intends, that God did really Purpose and Decree from Eternity, that Eli and his House should hold the Priesthood for ever: By the Second, that no condition was expressed, neither in terms, or necessarily implied in the thing it self, which is of the same import.
By the First he intends, that God did really Purpose and Decree from Eternity, that Eli and his House should hold the Preisthood for ever: By the Second, that no condition was expressed, neither in termes, or necessarily implyed in the thing it selfe, which is of the same import.