A53688:1034
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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Secondly, the state and Condition of them, on whom this living Water is bestowed, in reference thereunto, is described. Saith our Saviour, he that hath this Spirit of Grace, this well of living Water, shall never thirst. It is most emphatically expressed by two Negatives, and an Exegetical additional term for weight and certainty. [Greek or Hebrew] he shall never thirst to eternity: or as it is expressed, John 6. 25. [Greek or Hebrew] he shall never thirst at any time. There is a two fold thirst.
Secondly, the state and Condition of them, on whom this living Water is bestowed, in reference thereunto, is described. Saith our Saviour, he that hath this Spirit of Grace, this well of living Water, shall never thirst. It is most emphatically exprest by two Negatives, and an Exegeticall additionall terme for weight and certainty. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 he shall never thirst to eternity: or as it is exprssed, John 6. 25. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 he shall never thirst at any time. There is a two fold thirst.
1. There is a thirst totalis indigentiae of a whole and entire want, of that men thirst after: and this is the thirst, that returns upon men in their natural lives: After they have allayed it once with natural water, they thirst again, and their want of water returns as entire and full, as if they had never drank in their lives: Such a spiritual Thirst doth God ascribe to wicked men Isa. 65. 13. My servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry: my servants shall drink, but ye shall be Thirsty. Their hunger and thirst is the total want of Grace, not that they do desire it, but that they have it not. And this thirst of total want of Grace, is that, that never shall, nor can befall them, who have received the Spirit of Grace, as a Well of Water in them. They can never so thirst, as to be returned again into the Condition, wherein they were, before they drank of that Spirit.