A53688:1436
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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Thirdly, that as in Children there is an instinct, an inclination of nature, to induce them and carry them out to Obedience to their natural Parents, which yet is directed, regulated, provoked, and stirred up, and they thereby, to that Obedience, by Motives and Considerations suited to work upon their Minds and Consciences, to prevail with them thereunto, so also in Believers, the Children of God who are begotten of the will of God, of the Word of Truth, and borne again not of the Will of the flesh but of the will of God, there is a new Spiritual principle, a constituting principle of their Spiritual Lives wrought & implanted in them by the Spirit of God: a principle of Faith, Love, enabling them for, suiting them unto, & inciting them to that Obedience which is acceptable and well pleasing to their Father which is in Heaven: In which Obedience, as they are regulated by the Word, so they are stirred up unto it by all those motives, which the Lord in his infinite wisdom hath fitted to prevail on persons endued with such a principle from himself, as they are; It is not incumbent on me to enter upon the proof and demonstration of a Title to a Truth, which the Saints of God have held so long in unquestionable possession, nothing at all being brought to invalidate it, but only a bare insinuation that it is not so. Then
Thirdly, that as in Children there is an instinct, an inclination of nature, to induce them and carry them out to Obedience to their naturall Parents, which yet is directed, regulated, provoked, and stirred up, and they thereby, to that Obedince, by Motives and Considerations suited to worke upon their Minds and Consciences, to prevailewith them thereunto, so also in Believers, the Children of God who are begotten of the will of God, of the Word of Truth, and borne againe not of the Will of the flesh but of the will of God, there is a new Spirituall principle, a constituting principle of their Spirituall Lives wrought & implanted in thē by the Spirit of God: a principle of Faith, Love, enabling thē for, suiting them unto, & inciting them to that Obedience which is acceptable and well pleasing to their Father which is in Heaven: In which Obedience, as they are regulated by the Word, so they are stirred up unto it by all those motives, which the Lord in his infinite wisdome hath fitted to prevaile on persons indued with such a principle from himselfe, as they are; It is not incumbent on me to enter upon the proofe and demonstration of a Title to a Truth, which the Saints of God have held so long in unquestionable possession, nothing at all being brought to invalidate it, but only a bare insinuation that it is not so. Then