A53688:1336
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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Secondly,1 It hath been sufficiently showed before, that with these Exhortations, which work as appointed means, Morally God exerteth an ⟨p. 280⟩effectual power for the real production of that whereunto the Exhortation tends, dealing thus with our whole souls suitably to the Nature of all their faculties, as every one of them is fitted and suited to be wrought upon, for the accomplishment of the End he aims at, and in the manner that he intends; Briefly, to every Act of the VVill as an act in genere entis there is required a really operative and Physical concurrence of the Providential power of God in its own order, as the first Cause. To every Act; as good, or gracious the operative concurrence, and influence of the Spirit of Grace; which yet hinders not but that by Exhortations, men may be provoked and stirred up to the performance of Acts as such, and to the performance of them, as good and gracious.
Secondly,1 It hath been sufficiently shewed before, that with these Exhortations, which worke as appointed meanes, Morally God exerteth an ⟨p. 280⟩effectuall power for the reall production of that wherento the Exhortation tends, dealing thus with our whole soules suitably to the Nature of all their faculties, as every one of them is fitted and suited to be wrought upon, for the accomplishment of the End he aimes at, and in the manner that he intends; Briefely, to every Act of the VVill as an act in genere entis there is required a really operative and Physicall concurence of the Providentiall power of God in its owne order, as the first Cause. To every Act; as good, or gracious the operative concurrence, and influence of the Spirit of Grace; which yet hinders not but that by Exhortations, men may be provoked and stirred up to the performance of Acts as such, and to the performance of them, as good and gracious.
- 1§. 30.