A53688:1344
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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That all really efficient,1 internal working grace of God, was denied by M. Goodwin, was before discovered; there only tis more plainly asserted. All the workings of God on the Wills of men unto good, are merely by persuasion: Persuasion we know gives no strength, adds no power, to him that is persuaded to any thing; it only provokes him, and irritates him, to put forth, exert, and exercise the power which is in himself, unto the things whereunto he is persuaded, upon the motives & grounds of persuasion proposed to him; and the whole effect produced on that account, is in Solidum, to be ascribed to the really efficient cause of it, howsoever incited, or stirred up; whereas then, men by Nature are dead, blind, unbelieving, enemies to God, he persuades them only to exert the power that is in them, & thereby to live, see, believe, and be reconciled to him, And this is to exalt the free grace of God by Jesus Christ; We know full well who have gone before you in these paths, but shall heartily pray, that none of the Saints of God may follow after you, into this contempt of the work of his Grace. But Secondly;
That all really efficient,1 internall working grace of God, was denied by M. Goodwin, was before discovered; there only tis more plainely asserted. All the workings of God on the Wills of men unto good, are meerely by perswasion: Perswasion we know gives no strength, addes no power, to him that is perswaded to any thing; it only provokes him, and irritates him, to put forth, exert, and exercise the power which is in himselfe, unto the things whereunto he is perswaded, upon the motives & grounds of perswasion proposed to him; and the whole effect produced on that account, is in Solidum, to be ascribed to the really efficient cause of it, howsoever incited, or stirred up; whereas then, men by Nature are dead, blind, unbelieving, enemies to God, he perswades them only to exert the power that is in them, & thereby to live, see, believe, and be reconciled to him, And this is to exalt the free grace of God by Jesus Christ; We know full well who have gone before you in these paths, but shall heartily pray, that none of the Saints of God may follow after you, into this contempt of the work of his Grace. But Secondly;
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