A53688:598
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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When first I perused Mr Goodwin's Exceptions to this Testimony (Cap. 10. Sect. 52, 53, 54, 55, 56. Pag. 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224.) finding them opposed not so much,1 nor so directly to our inference from this place, as to the design, intendment, and arguing of the Apostle Rom. 9, 10, 11th chapters, and the reinforcing of the Objections by him, answered, casting again the Stone of offence in the way, by him removed, I thought to have passed it without any Reply, being not convinced, that it was possible for the Author himself to be satisfied either with his own exposition of this place, or his exceptions unto ours; but arriving at length to the close of this discourse, I found him quasi re preclarè gestâ, to triumph in his victory, expressing much confidence, that the World of Saints, who have hitherto bottomed much of their Faith & consolation, on the Covenant of God in these words expressed, will veil their faith & understanding to his uncontrollable Dictates, & not once make mention of the name of God in this place any more. Truly for my part, I must take the boldness to say, that before the coming forth of his Learned Treatise, I had read, & (according to my weak ability) weighed and considered what ever either Arminians, or Socinians (from the Founder of which Sect, their and his Interpretation of this place is borrowed) had entered against the interpretation insisted on, that I could by any means attain the sight of, and was not in the least shaken by ⟨p. 101⟩any of their Reasonings, from rejoicing in the Grace of God, as to the Unchangeableness of his Love to Believers, and the certainty of their Perseverance with him to the end, therein expressed: And I must add, that I am not one jot enamoured on their Objections and Reasonings, for all the new dress, which with some cost our Author hath been pleased to furnish them with, fashionably to set out themselves withal.
When first I perused Mr Goodwin's Exceptions to this Testimony (Cap. 10. Sect. 52, 53, 54, 55, 56. Pag. 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224.) finding them opposed not so much,1 nor so directly to our inference from this place, as to the designe, intendment, and arguing of the Apostle