A53688:1067
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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1. That all the motions of the holy Spirit, whereby they are, and ought to be lead, are regular: that he moves them to nothing, but what is according to the mind of Christ, delivered in the Word, which he hath appointed for their Rule to walk by; to no duty, but what is acceptable to him, and what he hath revealed so to be;1 So that, as Believers are to try the spirits of others, by that standard, whether they are of God or no, so because of the subtlety of Satan, transforming himself into an Angel of Light, yea into a spirit of duty, what ever immediate motions and impressions fall upon their Spirits, they ⟨p. 214⟩try them by the Rule. 'Tis no dishonour to the Holy Spirit, yea it is a great Honour to have his motions within us, tried by the Word, that he hath given for a Rule without us. Yea when any preached by immediate inspiration, he commends those,2 who examined what they delivered by that which he had given out before; He doth not now move in us, to give a new Rule, but a new Light and Power, as was said before. The motions of the Spirit of the World, are for the most part unto things, wherein, though the persons with whom he deals, may be in the dark or blind, and darkened by him, yet themselves are against the Rule, or besides it, in the whole, or in part, in respect of some such circumstances, as vitiate the whole performance.
1. That all the motions of the holy Spirit, whereby they are, and ought to be lead, are regular: that he moves them to nothing, but what is according to the mind of Christ, delivered in the Word, which he hath appointed for their Rule to walke by; to no duty, but what is acceptable to him, and what he hath revealed so to be;1 So that, as Believers are to try the spirits of others, by that standard, whether they are of God or no, so because of the subtilty of Sathan, transforming himselfe into an Angell of Light, yea into a spirit of duty, what ever immediate motions and impressions fall upon their Spirits, they ⟨p. 214⟩try them by the Rule. 'Tis no dishonour to the Holy Spirit, yea it is a great Honour to have his motions within us, tryed by the Word, that he hath given for a Rule without us. Yea when any preached by immediate inspiration, he commends those,