A53688:1024
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.
It is from hence, that these Graces, Patience, Hope, Experience, being set on work, do bear up, and support our souls, and raise them to such an height under their pressures, that we have great cause of rejoicing in them all: Yea but whence is this? Do these Graces readily come forth, and exert themselves, with an efficacy suitable to this triumphing frame? The ground & spring of all is discovered v. 5. it is because the Love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, that is given to us. From this fountain do all these fresh streams flow: the Spirit that is given us, that sheds abroad the Love of God in our Hearts, and thereby sets all our Graces on work. He oils the wheels of the souls obedience, when we neither know what to do, nor how to perform what we know.
It is from hence, that these Graces, Patience, Hope, Experience, being set on worke, doe beare up, and support our soules, and raise them to such an height under their pressures, that we have great cause of rejoycing in them all: Yea but whence is this? Do these Graces readily come forth, and exert themselves, with an efficacy suitable to this triumphing frame? The ground & spring of all is discovered v. 5. it is because the Love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, that is given to us. From this fountaine do all these fresh streames flow: the Spirit that is given us, that sheds abroad the Love of God in our Hearts, and thereby sets all our Graces on worke. He oyles the wheeles of the soules obedience, when we neither know what to do, nor how to performe what we know.
5. This indwelling Spirit, 1gives Restraint: Restraining Grace doth mainly consist in moral persuasions, from the Causes, Circumstances, and Ends of things; When a man is dissuaded from sin, upon Considerations taken from any such head or place, as is apt to prevail with him, that persuasion so applied and intended of God for that end, is unto him restraining Grace: By this means doth the Lord keep within bounds the most of the Sons of men, notwithstanding all their violent and impetuous lusts; Hell, shame, bitterness, disappointment on the one hand; Credit, Repute, quietness of Conscience, & the like, on the other, bind them to their good Behaviour. God through