A53688:1349
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, The proof from the Scripture mentioned, extends only to the interesting of Ministers in the great honour of Cooperating with God, in the work of begetting, & increasing Faith in their own sphere, according to the work to them committed. But that God, and they, do work with the same kind of efficiency, 'tis the main intendment of the Apostle in the place cited, 1 Cor: 3. to disprove; He tells you indeed, there is a work of Planting and watering, committed to the Ministers of the Gospel; but the giving of increase, (a peculiar working with a distinct kind of Efficiency) that is alone to be ascribed to God; It is (I say) his design, (who every where abundantly informs us, that Faith is the gift of God wrought in us by the exceeding greatness of his Power,) to prove in this place, that though the dispensation of the Word of the Gospel be committed unto men, yet their whole Ministry will be vain, and of none effect, unless by an immediate efficacy, or working of his Spirit, giving & bestowing Faith on his Elect, God do give an increase.
Secondly, The proofe from the Scripture mentioned, extends only to the interesting of Ministers in the great honour of Cooperating with God, in the work of begetting, & increasing Faith in their own spheare, according to the work to them committed. But that God, and they, do work with the same kind of efficiency, 'tis the maine intendment of the Apostle in the place cited, 1 Cor: 3. to disprove; He tells you indeed, there is a work of Planting and watering, committed to the Ministers of the Gospell; but the giving of increase, (a peculiar working with a distinct kind of Efficiency) that is alone to be ascribed to God; It is (I say) his designe, (who every where abundantly informes us, that Faith is the gift of God wrought in us by the exceeding greatnesse of his Power,) to prove in this place, that though the dispensation of the Word of the Gospell be committed unto men, yet their whole Ministry will be vaine, and of none effect, unlesse by an immediate efficacy, or working of his Spirit, giving & bestowing Faith on his Elect, God do give an increase.
Thirdly, For the term of [Necessitating] put upon the real effectual work of Gods Grace on the wills of men, giving them power, assistance, and working in them to will and to do, as different from that which is purely Moral