A53688:1321
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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For first, If so, then one and the same act of the Will should be both Physical and Moral, and so be specifically distinguished in, and from it self; for so far as tis produced by the irresistible force or power of the Spirit of God, it must needs be Physical, the said irresistible working of the Spirit, being a Physical action, and so not proper to produce a Moral effect; Again, as far as the said Exhortations are means to produce or raise this Act of the Will, or contribute any thing towards it, it must needs be moral, because Exhortations are Moral causes, and so not capable of producing Physical, Natural, or Necessary effects; Now then if it be impossible that one and the same Act of the Will should be both Physical and Moral, that is Necessary & not Necessary, impossible also it is, that it should be produced by the irresistible working of God, and by exhortations of this joint efficiency.
For first, If so, then one and the same act of the Will should be both Physicall and Morall, and so be specifically distinguished in, and from it selfe; for so farre as tis produced by the irresistible force or power of the Spirit of God, it must needs be Physicall, the said irresistible working of the Spirit, being a Physicall action, and so not proper to produce a Moralleffect; Againe, as farre as the said Exhortations are meanes to produce or raise this Act of the Will, or contribute any thing towards it, it must needs be morall, because Exhortations are Morall causes, and so not capable of producing Physicall, Naturall, or Necessary effects; Now then if it be impossible that one and the same Act of the Will should be both Physicall and Morall, that is Necessary & not Necessary, impossible also it is, that it should be produced by the irresistible working of God, and by exhortations of this joynt efficiency.
It may be Objected, they who hold or grant such an influence, or operation of the Spirit of God, upon the Will which is frustrable, or resistible, do, or must suppose it to be a Physical action, as well as that which is irresistible; If so, then the act of the Will, so far as tis raised by the means of this action, or operation of God, must according to the tenor of the former Arguments be Physical also, and so the pretended Impossibility, is no more avoided by this opinion then by the other.