A53688:533
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.
1. Whether the Apostle applies himself to remove the Scruple ingenerated in the minds of Believers, about their own falling away, upon Consideration of the Apostasy of others, and to answer the Objection arising thereupon? This Mr Goodwin grants in the Head, though in the Branches of his Discourse, he casts in inquiries quite of another nature; as, that a Reason is inquired after, why men fall from the Gospel, and a suspicion is supposed to arise of the Truth of the Gospel, because some fell from it: Things that have not the least intimation in the words, or Context of the place, nor of any such evidence for their interest in the business in hand, that Mr Goodwin durst take them for ingredients in the case under consideration, when he himself proposed it; so that he was enforced to foist in this counterfeit Case, to give some colour to the Interpretation of the words, introduced. But yet this must not be openly owned, but intermixed with other Discourses, to lead aside the Understanding of the Reader from bearing in mind the true State of the Case by the Apostle proposed, and by himself acknowledged: So that this Discourse desinit in piscem &c.
1. Whether the Apostle applyes himselfe to remove the Scruple ingenerated in the minds of Believers, about their owne falling away, upon Consideration of the Apostasie of others, and to answer the Objection arising thereupon? This Mr Goodwin grants in the Head, though in the Branches of his Discourse, he casts in inquiries quite of another nature; as, that a Reason is inquired after, why men fall from the Gospell, and a suspicion is supposed to arise of the Truth of the Gospell, because some fell from it: Things that have not the least intimation in the words, or Context of the place, nor of any such evidence for their interest in the businesse in hand, that Mr Goodwin durst take them for ingredients in the case under consideration, when he himselfe proposed it; so that he was inforced to foyst in this counterfeit Case, to give some colour to the Interpretation of the words, introduced. But yet this must not be openly owned, but intermixed with other Discourses, to lead aside the Understanding of the Reader from bearing in minde the true State of the Case by the Apostle proposed, and by himselfe ackowledged: So that this Discourse desinit in piscem &c.