A53688:1029
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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She is sensible of the withering of her Spices, the decays of her Graces, and her disability thereupon, to give any suitable entertainment unto Jesus Christ; Hence is her earnestness for new breathings, and operations of the Spirit of Grace, to renew, and revive, and set on work again her Graces in her, which, without it, could not be done; All Graces are the fruits of the Spirit. Gal. 5. 25, 26. The fruit of the Spirit is Love, Joy, Peace, Long-suffering, Kindness, Goodness, Faith, Gentleness, Temperance; if the Root do not communicate fresh juice and sap continually, the fruit will quickly wither; were there not a continual communication of new life, and freshness unto our Graces, from the Indwelling Spirit, we should soon be poor withered Branches: this our Saviour tells us, Joh. 15. 4, 5. abide in me and I in you: as the branches cannot bring forth fruit of themselves, unless they remain in the Vine, no more can ye, unless ye abide in me; I am the Vine, ye are the Branches: he who abideth in me, and I in him, he bringeth forth much fruit, for separate from me ye can do nothing. Our Abiding in Christ, and his in us, is (as was declared) by the Indwelling of the same Spirit in him and us. Hence, saith Christ, have you all your fruit-bearing virtue, and unless that be continued to us, we shall wither and consume to nothing; David in his spiritually declined condition, entangled under the power and guilt of sin, cries out for the continuance of the Spirit, and the restoring him, as to those ends and purpose• in reference whereunto, he was departed from ⟨p. 205⟩him. Ps: 51. 21, 22. This the Apostle prays earnestly, that the Ephesians may receive Ch. 3. 16, 17. I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, that he will give unto you, according to the riches of his Glory, that ye may be strengthened with might, by his spirit in the inward man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts by Faith, that ye being rooted, and grounded in Love &c. The inward Man is the same with the new Creature, the new principle of Grace in the Heart; This is apt to be sick, to faint, and decay; the Apostle prays that it might be strengthened; how is this to be done? how is it to be renewed, increased, enlivened? It is, saith he, by the mighty power of the Spirit;