A53688:1037
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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Thirdly,1 our Saviour gives the reason, why, and whence it is, that they, who drink of this Water, are made partakers of his Spirit, shall thirst no more, or never be brought to the Condition of total want of Grace, which they were in, before they received him: because the water which I shall give them (saith he) the Spirit, which I shall bestow upon them, dwelleth in them (as we have showed) shall be a well of Water, a fountain of Grace, springing up in them to everlasting Life, continuing and perpetuating the Grace communicated, unto the full fruition of God in Glory. There are (among others) three eminent ⟨p. 207⟩things in this Reason, to confirm us in the faith of the former Assertion.
Thirdly,1 our Saviour gives the reason, why, and whence it is, that they, who drinke of this Water, are made partakers of his Spirit, shall thirst no more, or never be brought to the Condition of totall want of Grace, which they were in, before they received him: because the water which I shall give them (saith he) the Spirit, which I shall bestow upon them, dwelleth in them (as we have shewed) shall be a well of Water, a fountaine of Grace, springing up in them to everlasting Life, continuing and perpetuating the Grace communicated, unto the full fruition of God in Glory. There are (among others) three eminent ⟨p. 207⟩things in this Reason, to confirme us in the faith of the former Assertion.
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1. The condition or nature of the Spirit in Believers. He is a Well, a Fountain, a Spring, that never can, nor will be dry to Eternity.