A53688:1529
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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the sin of Nature, the Lust whereof we speak, this by nature reigneth unto Death, but when Grace comes by Jesus Christ, the soul is delivered from the power thereof, so in the whole 6. Chap. It is our change of state and Condition that the Apostle insists on in our delivery from the reign of sin, and he tells us, this is that that destroys it, our being under Grace v: 14. Sin shall not have dominion over you because you are not under the Law, but under Grace; Plainly then there are two Lords and Rulers, and these are Original or Indwelling sin and Grace or the Spirit of it; The first Lord the Apostle discovers with his entrance upon his Rule and Dominion, Chap. 5. and this all men by nature are under; The second he describes Chap. 6. which sets out the Rule & reign of Grace in Believers by Jesus Christ. And then
the sinne of Nature, the Lust wherof we speake, this by nature reigneth unto Death, but when Grace comes by Jesus Christ, the soule is delivered from the power thereof, so in the whole 6. Chap. It is our change of state and Condition that the Apostle insists on in our delivery from the reigne of sinne, and he tells us, this is that that destroyes it, our being under Grace v: 14. Sinne shall not have dominion over you because you are not under the Law, but under Grace; Plainely then there are two Lords and Rulers, and these are Originall or Indwelling sinne and Grace or the Spirit of it; The first Lord the Apostle discovers with his entrance upon his Rule and Dominion, Chap. 5. and this all men by nature are under; The second he describes Chap. 6. which sets out the Rule & reigne of Grace in Believers by Jesus Christ. And then
Thirdly the place that both these Lords have in this life in a Believer, Cap. 7. This then is the only reigning sin & in whomsoever it is in its power & compass as it is in all unregenerate men, in them, & in them only doth sin reign, & every sin they commit is with full consent, (as was manifested before) in exact willing Obedience to the sovereign Lord that reigns in them.
Thirdly the place that both these Lords have in this life in a Believer, Cap. 7. This then is the only reigning sin & in whomsoever it is in its power & compas as it is in all unregenerate men, in them, & in them only doth sin reigne, & every sin they commit is with full consent, (as was manifested before) in exact willing Obedience to the soveraigne Lord that reignes in them.