A53688:1306
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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But Obedience is twofold; First, as to the general frame of the heart, Obedience in the habit; and so 'tis false that the Saints live at any time in an ordinary course, much less dye in opposition to those Exhortations; the Law of God being written in their hearts, and they delighting in it in their inward man, they abide therein; the fruit of Obedience for the most part being brought forth by them; And this sufficeth as to their Perseverance
But Obedience is twofold; First, as to the generall frame of the heart, Obedience in the habit; and so 'tis false that the Saints live at any time in an ordinary course, much lesse dye in opposition to those Exhortations; the Law of God being written in their hearts, and they delighting in it in their inward man, they abide therein; the fruit of Obedience for the most part being brought forth by them; And this sufficeth as to their Perseverance
Secondly, It regardeth particular acts of Obedience, and in respect of them we all say, that yet they all sinne, (Optimus ille est, qui minimis urgetur) but this prejudiceth not their Perseverance, nor the general end of the Exhortations afforded them for that purpose.
Secondly, It regardeth particular acts of Obedience, and in respect of them we all say, that yet they all sinne, (Optimus ille est, qui minimis urgetur) but this prejndiceth not their Perseverance, nor the generall end of the Exhortations afforded them for that purpose.
But he adds Secondly, If God by his Spirit irresistibly draws his Saints to persevere, ut supra.
But he adds Secondly, If God by his Spirit irresistibly drawes his Saints to persevere, ut supra.