A53688:1345
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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If nothing but Persuasion be allowed to God in the work of mens Conversion,1 & in the carrying on of their obedience to the end, Wherein doth the Persuasion of God consist, in distinction from the Persuasion used in, & from the Word by Ministers, which it is pretended that it may excel (though tis not affirmed that it doth) many degrees; Let it be considered (I say) in what Acts of the will, or power of God his persuasion, so distinct as above mentioned, doth consist: Let us know what Arguments he useth, by what Means he applies them, how he conveys them to the Wills of men, that are not coincident, with those of the Ministry; I suppose at last 'twill be found, that there ⟨p. 282⟩is no other operation of God in Persuading men, as to the ends under consideration, but only what lies, or consists in the persuading of the Word, by the Ministers thereof; God looking on, without the exerting of any efficacy whatever, which is indeed that which is aimed at, & is really exclusive of the Grace of God, from any hand in the Conversion of sinners, or Preservation of Believers.
If nothing but Perswasion be allowed to God in the work of mens Conversion,1 & in the carrying on of their obedience to the end, Wherein doth the Perswasion of God consist, in distinction from the Perswasion used in, & from the Word by Ministers, which it is pretended that it may excell (though tis not affirmed that it doth) many degrees; Let it be considered (I say) in what Acts of the will, or power of God his perswasion, so distinct as above mentioned, doth consist: Let us know what Arguments he useth, by what Meanes he applies them, how he conveyes them to the Wills of men, that are not coincident, with those of the Ministry; I suppose at last 'twill be found, that there ⟨p. 282⟩is no other operation of God in Perswading men, as to the ends under consideration, but only what lies, or consists in the perswading of the Word, by the Ministers thereof; God looking on, without the exerting of any efficacy whatever, which is indeed that which is aimed at, & is really exclusive of the Grace of God, from any hand in the Conversion of sinners, or Preservation of Believers.