A53688:1068
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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2. They know that the Commands and motions of the Spirit, which dwells in them,1 are not grievous. The commands of Christ, for the matter of them,2 are not grievous, his burden is light, his yoke easy: and the manner, whereby we are carried out to the performance of them, is not Grievous: where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty. 2. Cor. 3. 17. It carries out the soul to duty, in a free, sweet, calm, ingenuous manner. The motions of the Spirit of the World, even unto good things, and duties, (for so, for farther ends of his, it often falls out that they are) are troublesome, vexatious, perplexing, grievous, and tumultuating. Satan falls like lightning upon the Soul, and comes upon the powers of it, as a Tempest: Hence acting in any thing, upon his closing with, and provoking our convictions, is called a being under the Spirit of bondage. Rom: 8. 15. which is opposed to the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Adoption, of Liberty, boldness, power, and a sound mind.
2. They know that the Commands and motions of the Spirit, which dwells in them,1 are not grievous. The commands of Christ, for the matter of them,2 are not grievous, his burthen is light, his yoake easy: and the manner, whereby we are carried out to the performance of them, is not Grievous: where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty. 2. Cor. 3. 17. It carries out the soule to duty, in a free, sweet, calme, ingenuous manner. The motions of the Spirit of the World, even unto good things, and duties, (for so, for farther ends of his, it often falls out that they are) are troublesome, vexatious, perplexing, grievous, and tumultuating. Sathan falls like lightning upon the Soule, and comes upon the powers of it, as a Tempest: Hence acting in any thing, upon his closing with, and provoking our convictions, is called a being under the Spirit of bondage. Rom: 8. 15. which is opposed to the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Adoption, of Liberty, boldnesse, power, and a sound mind.