A53688:1006
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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There are three things,1 which men either have, or may be made partakers of without this, this communication of Light, by the Indwelling Spirit.
- 1§. 19.
1. They have the Subject of knowledge, a natural faculty of understanding; their minds remain, though depraved, destroyed, perverted; yea so far that their eye, 1and the light that is in them is darkness; yet the faculty remain still.
1. They have the Subject of knowledge, a naturall faculty of understanding; their mindes remaine, though depraved, destroyed, perverted; yea so farre that their eye, 1and the light that is in them is darknesse; yet the faculty remaine still.
2. They may have the Object, or Truth revealed in the word; This is common to all, that are made partakers of the good Word of God; that is, to whom 'tis Preached and delivered, as it is to many, whom it doth not profit, being not mixed with Faith. Heb: 4. 2.
2. They may have the Object, or Truth revealed in the word; This is common to all, that are made partakers of the good Word of God; that is, to whom 'tis Preached and delivered, as it is to many, whom it doth not profit, being not mixt with Faith. Heb: 4. 2.