A53688:1523
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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1. The Fountain, 1principle & cause of all sin whatever in all persons whatever is Lust, every ones own Lust is the cause of his own sin; This is the mother, womb, & fomes of sin, which Paul says he had not been acquainted withal but by the Law, Rom. 7. 7. Nay I had not known sin but by the Law, for I had not known Lust except the Law had said thou shalt not Covet; That which in the entrance he calls sin indefinitely, in the close he particularly terms Lust; as being the hidden secret cause of all sin, and which once discovered swallows up the thoughts of all other sin, it being altogether in vain to deal with them, or to set a mans self in opposition to them, whilst this sinful womb of them is alive and prevalent; this is that which we call Original sin, as to that part of it which consists in the universal alienation of our hearts from God, and unconquerable, habitual, natural inclination of them to every thing that is evil; for this sin works in us all manner of concupiscence Rom. 7. 8. This I say is the womb, cause, and principle of sin, both in Believers and Unbelievers; The Root on which the bitter fruit of it doth grow where ever it is; no man ever sins but 'tis from his own lust. And in this there is an agreement between the sins of Believers, and others, they are all from the same Fountain, yet not such an agreement but that there is a difference herein also; for the clearing whereof observe.
1. The Fountaine, 1principle & cause of all sin whatever in all persons whatever is Lust, every ones owne Lust is the cause of his owne sin; This is the mother, wombe, & fomes of sin, which Paul sayes he had not been acquainted withall but by the Law, Rom. 7. 7. Nay I had not knowne sin but by the Law, for I had not knowne Lust except the Law had said thou shalt not Covet; That which in the entrance he calls sin indefinitely, in the close he particularly termes Lust; as being the hidden secret cause of all sinne, and which once discovered swallowes up the thoughts of all other sin, it being altogether in vaine to deale with them, or to set a mans selfe in opposition to them, whilst this sinfull wombe of them is alive and prevalent; this is that which we call Originall sinne, as to that part of it which consists in the universall alienation of our hearts from God, and unconquerable, habituall, naturall inclination of them to every thing that is evill; for this sinne workes in us all manner of concupiscence