A53688:501
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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1. First, those expressions [in what Case or Cases soever] are foisted into the sense, and sentence of them, whom he opposes; who affirm the Acts of Gods Grace here mentioned to be effectually, and virtually Preventive of those cases, and of which might possibly give any Interruption to the Series of them.
1. First, those expressions [in what Case or Cases soever] are foysted into the sence, and sentence of them, whom he opposes; who affirme the Acts of Gods Grace here mentioned to be effectually, and vertually Preventive of those cases, and of which might possibly give any Interruption to the Series of them.
2. Secondly, Whatsoever is here pretended of the main scope of the Chapter, ⟨p. 71⟩the scope of the place, we have under consideration, was granted before, to be the making Good of that Assertion premised in the Head thereof, that all things should work together for good to Believers, and that so to make it Good, that upon this Demonstration of it, they might triumph with Joy and Exultation: which it cannot be denied, but that this uninterruptible series of Divine Acts, (not framed by the Apostle, but) revealed by the Holy Ghost, is fitted and suited to do.
2. Secondly, Whatsoever is here pretended of the maine scope of the Chapter, ⟨p. 71⟩the scope of the place, we have under consideration, was granted before, to be the making Good of that Assertion premised in the Head thereof, that all things should work together for good to Believers, and that so to make it Good, that upon this Demonstration of it, they might triumph with Joy and Exultation: which it cannot be denied, but that this uninterruptible series of Divine Acts, (not framed by the Apostle, but) revealed by the Holy Ghost, is fitted and suited to doe.