A53688:1327
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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First, Why so? Because Physical & Moral means are used for the producing of it; as though sundry causes of several kinds, might not concur to produce one uniform effect, far enough from a necessity of receiving so much as a Denomination from each of them; In the concurrence of several ⟨p. 278⟩causes, whereof some may be Free and Contingent, others Natural and Necessary, the Effect Absolutely follows, its next and immediate cause alone; God causes the Sun to shine freely; yet is the shining of the Sun, a necessary Effect of the Sun, and not any way free or contingent. God determined the piercing of Christs side, and so as to the event made it necessary, but yet was the doing of it in then that did it, free, as to the manner of its doing & no way necessary.
First, Why so? Because Physicall & Morall meanes are used for the producing of it; as though sundry causes of severall kinds, might not concurre to produce one uniforme effect, farre enough from a necessity of receiving so much as a Denomination from each of them; In the concurrence of severall ⟨p. 278⟩causes, whereof some may be Free and Contingent, others Naturall and Necessary, the Effect Absolutely followes, its next and immediate cause alone; God causes the Sunne to shine freely; yet is the shining of the Sunne, a necessary Effect of the Sunne, and not any way free or contingent. God determined the peircing of Christs side, and so as to the event made it necessary, but yet was the doing of it in then that did it, free, as to the manner of its doing & no way necessary.
But Secondly,1 suppose the same act of the will, should be said to be both Physical and Moral upon several accounts;; And what if every Act of the will in, and about things good or bad be so? And it be utterly impossible it should be otherwise? Yea, But then the same Act should be specifically distinguished in, and from it self.