A53688:1254
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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Effects follow as to their kind, their next causes. 26. The same Act of the will Physical and Moral upon several accounts: Those accounts considered. 27. God by the real efficacy of the Spirit, produceth in us Acts of the will, morally good: that confirmed from Scripture. 28. Conclusion from thence. 29. Of the terms, Physical, Moral, and necessary, and their use in things of the nature under consideration. Moral causes of Physical effects. 30. The concurrence of Physical and Moral causes for producing the same effect: the efficacy of Grace, and exhortations. 31. Physical and necessary, how distinguished. Moral and not necessary. Confounded by M. G. 32. M. G. farther progress considered. 33. What operation of God on the will of man he allows. All Physical operation by him excluded. 34. M. G's sense of the difference between the working of God and a Minister on the will: that it is but gradual. 35. Considered and removed. All working of God on the will by him confined to persuasion: persuasion gives no strength or ability to the person persuaded. 36. All immediate acting of God to good in men, by M: G. utterly excluded. 37. Wherein Gods persuading men doth consist according to M. G. 1 Cor. 3. 9. considered. 38. Of the concurrence of diverse Agents to the production of the same effect. 39. The sum of the 7 Section of Gh. 13. The will how necessitated, how free. 40. In what seuce M. G. allows Gods persuasions to be irresistible. 41. The dealings of God and men ill compared. 42. Pauls exhortation to the use of means, where the end was certain, Acts 24. c•df•dered▪ God deals with men as men, exhorting them, and as corrupted men assisting them. 43. Of Promises of Temporal things whether all conditional. 44. What condition in the Promise made to Paul Act. 27. 45. Farther of that Promise, its infallibility and means of Accomplishment. 46. The same considerations farther prosecuted. 47. 48. Of Promises of Perseverance, and what relations to perform in conjunction. 49. M. G. opposition hereunto. 50. Promises and protestations in conjunction 1 Cor. 10. 12, 13. discussed. An absolute Promise of Perseverance therein evinced. 51.