A53688:1243
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. Here is a willing in reference to a great Spiritual duty supposed in men, antecedent to any Assistance of him who worketh to will and to do of his own good pleasure. What he worketh, he worketh by the Spirit. But this is a willing in us, distinct from, and antecedent to, the appearing of the Spirit for the strengthening thereof.
1. Here is a willing in reference to a great Spirituall duty supposed in men, antecedent to any Assistance of him who worketh to will and to do of his owne good pleasure. What he worketh, he worketh by the Spirit. But this is a willing in us, distinct from, and antecedent to, the appearing of the Spirit for the strengthning thereof.
2. That whereas we have hitherto imagined that the Spirit strengtheneth the Saints and that their supportment had been from him, as we partly also before declared (at least we did our mind to be so persuaded) it seemeth they strengthen the Spirit in them, and not he them; How or by what means, or by what principles in them it is, that so they do, is not declared. Besides what is here intended by the Spirit, is not manifested; If it be the Holy and Blessed Spirit of God, be hath no need of our strengthening; he is able of himself, to make us meet for the Inheritance of the Saints in Light; If it be the ⟨p. 259⟩gracious principles that are bestowed upon the Saints, that are intended, the new Creature, the inward man, called the Spirit in the Scripture, in opposition to the flesh, if our strengthening this Spirit, be any thing, but the acting of the Graces intended thereby in us, I know not what you mean. Especially, in what is or consists their acting to make the Spirit willing proportionably to the means we do receive, am I to seek, to say, that we receive outward means of God, (for so they must be, being distinguished from the Spirit) and thereupon of our selves do make the Spirit willing, and strengthen him to the performance of God, surely holds out a very sufficient power in Spiritual things, inbred in us, and abiding with us whereof there is not the least Line or appearance in the whole Book of God, nor in any Author urged by Mr Goodwin to give countenance to his persuasion, neither