A53688:1001
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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Of these, the one lays forth the way, the other directs, and carries along in it. The first is the Word, giving us the Direction of a way, of a Rule; the latter is the Spirit, effectually guiding and leading us in all the paths thereof. Without this, the other direction will be of no saving use. It may be line upon ⟨p. 198⟩line, precept upon precept, yet men go backward, and are ensnared David notwithstanding the Rule of the Word, yea the Spirit of Prophecy, for the inditing of more of the mind of God for the use of the Church, when moved thereunto, yet in one Psalm cries out four times, Oh! give me understanding to keep thy Commandments, concluding that hence would be his life, that therein it lay, Oh give me (saith he) understanding and I shall live, Psal. 119. 144. so Paul bidding Timothy consider the Word of the Scripture, that he might know whence it is, that this will be of use unto him, he adds, I pray the Lord give thee understanding in all things 2 Tim: 2. 7. How this Understanding is given, the same Apostles informs us. Eph. 1. 17, 18. The God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory, give unto us the Spirit of Wisdom, & Revelation in the knowledge of him, the eyes of our understandings being thereby enlightened. It is the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation, the Holy Spirit of God, from whom is all Spiritual Wisdom and all Revelation of the will of God,1 who being given unto us, by the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our God in him, enlightens our understandings, that we may know &c. And on this account is the Son of God said to come and give us an Understanding to know him that is true: that is, himself by his Spirit, 2 Joh. 5. 20.
Of these, the one layes forth the way, the other directs, and carryes along in it. The first is the Word, giving us the Direction of a way, of a Rule; the latter is the Spirit, effectually guiding and leading us in all the paths thereof. Without this, the other direction will be of no saving use. It may be line upon ⟨p. 198⟩