A53688:514
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 sum of it is, that there is no unlikelihood in this, that, though one part of the Chain of Divine Graces before mentioned, cannot be dissolved nor broken, yet another may, (notwithstanding that a dissolution of any one of them, renders the design of God in them all, wholly frustrate and fruitless) This he proves, by proposing a new series of Divine Acts, in actual dependence one upon another, some whereof may be uninterruptible, but the other not so. He that shall but slightly view the Concatenation of Divine Acts, here proposed by Mr Goodwin, for the illustration of that dependence of them, and their Efficacy, which we insist upon, will quickly find it liable to some such small Exceptions, as renders it altogether useless, as to the end proposed. As first,
The summe of it is, that there is no unlikelihood in this, that, though one part of the Chaine of Divine Graces before mentioned, cannot be dissolved nor broken, yet another may, (notwithstanding that a dissolution of any one of them, renders the designe of God in them all, wholly frustrate and fruitlesse) This he proves, by proposing a new series of Divine Acts, in actuall dependance one upon another, some whereof may be uninterruptible, but the other not so. He that shall but slightly view the Concatenation of Divine Acts, here proposed by Mr Goodwin, for the illustration of that dependance of them, and their Efficacy, which we insist upon, will quickly finde it lyable to some such small Exceptions, as renders it altogether uselesse, as to the end proposed. As first,
1. That the case here proposed, and pretended to be parallel to that under our Consideration, is a fictitious thing, a feigned Concatenation of feigned Decrees of God, being neither in any one place delivered in the Scripture, nor to be collected from any, or all the Texts in the Bible: which course of proceeding, if it may be Argumentative in sacred Truths, it will be an easy and facile task to overthrow the most Eminent and clearly delivered Heads of Doctrine in the whole Book of God.
1. That the case here proposed, and pretended to be parallell to that under our Consideration, is a fictitious thing, a fained Concatenation of fained Decrees of God, being neither in any one place delivered in the Scripture, nor to be collected from any, or all the Texts in the Bible: which course of proceeding, if it may be Argumentative in sacred Truths, it will be an easie and facile taske to overthrow the most Eminent and clearely delivered Heads of Doctrine in the whole Booke of God.