A53688:1053
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. It is true, the Saints notwithstanding this Promise, are still liable to Thirst, that Thirst intimated Mat. 5.6. after Righteousness; but not at all to that Thirst, which they have a Promise here to be freed from; a Thirst of an ⟨p. 210⟩universal want of that water, wherewith they are refreshed; and that their freedom from this Thirst, is their portion in this life, we have the Testimony of Christ himself, he that believes on me, shall thirst no more. Joh. 6. 35. And the reason of their not Thirsting, is the receiving, and drinking in that water, which Christ gives them, which, as himself says, is his Spirit, which they receive who believe on him. Joh. 7. 38, 39. neither is that Thirst of theirs, which doth remain, troublesome, as is insinuated, it being a grace of the Spirit, and so quieting, and composing; Though they are troubled for the want of that in its fullness, which they Thirst after, yet their Thirst is no way troublesome: That then which is farther added by Mr Goodwin, is exceeding sophistical.
4. It is true, the Saints notwithstanding this Promise, are still liable to Thirst, that Thirst intimated Mat. 5.6. after Righteousnesse; but not at all to that Thirst, which they have a Promise here to be freed from; a Thirst of an ⟨p. 210⟩universall want of that water, wherewith they are refreshed; and that their freedome from this Thirst, is their portion in this life, we have the Testimony of Christ himselfe, he that believes on mee, shall thirst no more. Ioh. 6. 35. And the reason of their not Thirsting, is the receiving, and drinking in that water, which Christ gives them, which, as himselfe saies, is his Spirit, which they receive who believe on him. Ioh. 7. 38, 39. neither is that Thirst of theirs, which doth remaine, troublesome, as is insinuated, it being a grace of the Spirit, and so quieting, and composing; Though they are troubled for the want of that in its fulnesse, which they Thirst after, yet their Thirst is no way troublesome: That then which is farther added by Mr Goodwin, is exceeding sophisticall.