A53688:1048
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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4. The present exemption, which we have by the Waters of Christs giving, is not from sorrow and trouble, but from thirst: that is, from what is opposed unto, and is destructive of that Life, which he also gives: as natural thirst is unto natural life. But of this thirst, and our exemption from it, I have spoken before. It is not then the nature and condition of the Life promised, that he points unto, no farther then as it is coincident with the means of it, here spoken of. Indeed this means of life, is our life, as to the inchoation of it here below, and its daily growing up unto perfection. But he adds Sect. 11.
4. The present exemption, which we have by the Waters of Christs giving, is not from sorrow and trouble, but from thirst: that is, from what is opposed unto, and is destructive of that Life, which he also gives: as naturall thirst is unto naturall life. But of this thirst, and our exemption from it, I have spoken before. It is not then the nature and condition of the Life promised, that he points unto, no farther then as it is coincident with the meanes of it, here spoken of. Indeed this meanes of life, is our life, as to the inchoation of it here below, and its daily growing up unto perfection. But he adds Sect. 11.
1. That he doth not oppose that Life, which accrues unto men by drinking that Water which he gives them,1 unto the natural life, which they live, by other means, in respect of the present Condition, or Constitution of it, or as it is enjoyed by men in this present world, is evident from hence, because he asserts it free from thirst, (shall never thirst,). Now we know that the Saints themselves, notwithstanding that life of Grace, which is in them, by drinking that Water that Christ hath given them, are yet subject to both kinds of Thirst, as well that which is corporeal or natural, as that which is Spiritual; yea the Spiritual Thirst, unto which they are now subject, though it argues a deficiency of what they would farther have, or desire to be; and in that respect, is troublesome, yet is it Argumentative of the goodness of their Condition.