A53688:1009
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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3. The way and means of Communicating the truth so revealed to their minds or understandings, which is the Literal, Grammatical, Logical delivery of the things contained in the Scriptures, as held out to their Minds and Apprehensions, in their meditation on them: and this means of conveyance of the sense of the Scripture, is plain, obvious, and clear, in all necessary Truths.
3. The way and meanes of Communicating the truth so revealed to their minds or understandings, which is the Litterall, Grammaticall, Logicall delivery of the things contained in the Scriptures, as held out to their Minds and Apprehensions, in their meditation on them: and this meanes of convayance of the sence of the Scripture, is plaine, obvious, and cleare, in all necessary Truths.
A Concurrence of these three will afford, and yield them, that have it, upon their diligence and enquiry, a Disciplinary knowledge of the Literal sense of Scripture, as they have of other things: By this means, the Light shines [Greek or Hebrew], sends out some beams of light into their dark minds, but the darkness comprehends it not, 1receives not the Light in a spiritual manner: there is notwithstanding all this, still wanting the work of the Spirit before mentioned, creating and implanting in and upon their understandings and minds, that Light and power of discerning spiritual things, which before we insisted on. This the Scripture sometimes calls, the opening of the understanding. Luk: 24. 45. sometimes the giving an understanding it self, 2 Tim: 2. 7. 1 John. 5. 20 sometimes, light in the Lord, Ephes. 5. 8. Notwithstanding all the Advantages formerly spoken of, without this men are still natural men, and darkness, not comprehending, not receiving the things of God: that is, not spiritually, for so the Apostle adds, because they Spiritually discerned.