A53688:1308
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 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.
But this is sorry Sophistry, which may be felt (as they say) through a pair of mittens, For
But this is sorry Sophistry, which may be felt (as they say) through a paire of mittins, For
First who says that God works by force immediately upon the wills of men? Or who makes force and power to be terms equivalent? Or that God cannot put forth the exceeding greatness of his power in them that believe, but he must force or compel their wills: or that he can not work in us to will and to do of his own good pleasure, immediately working in and with our wills, but he must so force them.
First who saies that God workes by force immediately upon the wills of men? Or who makes force and power to be tearmes equivalent? Or that God cannot put forth the exceeding greatnesse of his power in them that believe, but he must force or compell their wills: or that he can not work in us to will and to do of his owne goodpleasure, immediately working in and with our wills, but he must so force them.