A53688:81
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.
Especially may this be supposed to have some influence upon him, considering the gentle censure added in the next words by that Reverend Father of his Church concerning the endeavour of Vedelius in his notes on that Edition. Neque Audax ille & importunus Ignatii Censor, quicquam attulit ad paginas suas implendas praeter inscitiam, & incuriam, & impudentiam singularem (nec saevi magne sacerdos) dum ad suum Genevalismum antiquitatem detorquet invitissimam, non autem quod oportuit, Calvinismum amussitat ad antiquitatem. And what I pray is the reason of his Episcopal censure? That he should deal with poor Vedelius in that language wherewith no men of his Order, and Authority were wont to deal with preaching Ministers at their visitations? Why this poor man in that passage which you have in the Epistle to the Magnesians (in that Edition: p: 56.) where treating of the Ancient Fathers expectations of the coming of Christ, retains the common reading of, [Greek or Hebrew] referring the word to their expectation of seeing him come in the flesh, which upon the Testimony of our Saviour himself, they desired to see, and saw it not, not correcting it by a change of [Greek or Hebrew] into [Greek or Hebrew], so referring it to their faith in Christ and salvation by him as in his Judgment, he ought to have done [Greek or Hebrew]
Especially may this be supposed to have some influence upon him, considering the gentle censure added in the next words by that Reverend Father of his Church concerning the endeavour of Vedelius in his notes on that Edition. Neque Audax ille & importunus Ignatii Censor, quicquam attulit ad paginas suas implendas praeter inscitiam, & incuriam, & impudentiam singularem (nec saevi magne sacerdos) dum ad suum Genevalismum antiquitatem detorquet invitissimam, non autem quod oportuit, Calvinismum amussitat ad antiquitatem. And what I pray is the reason of his Episcopal censure? That he should deale with poor Vedelius in that language wherewith no men of his Order, and Authority were wont to deale with preaching Ministers at their visitations? Why this poor man in that passage which you have in the Epistle to the Magnesians (in that Edition: p: 56.) where treating of the Antient Fathers expectations of the coming of Christ, retaines the common reading of, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 referring the word to their expectation of seeing him come in the flesh, which upon the Testimony of our Saviour himselfe, they desired to see, and saw it not, not correcting it by a change of 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 into , so referring it to their faith in Christ and salvation by him as in his Judgment, he ought to have done