A53688:1538
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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Ans. What we intend by the Saints not sinning with their whole wills hath been declared;1 that there is not a consistency in the explanation we have given Mr Goodwin asserts; because it would infer a plurality yea a contrariety of wills in the same person at the same time; That there is a plurality yea a contrariety of wills in the Scripture sense of the expression of the will of a man was before from the Scripture declared; not a plurality of wills in a Physical sense, as the will is a natural faculty of the soul, but in a Moral and Analogical sense as 'tis taken for a habit or principle of good or evil; The will is a natural faculty, one nature hath one will, in every Regenerate man there are two natures, the new or divine, and the old or corrupted. In the same sense there are in him two wills as was declared; But saith he It is an impossibility of the first evidence that there should be a plurality of Acts in the same subject at the same time and these contrary one to another. But
Ans. What we intend by the Saints not sinning with their whole wills hath been declared;1 that there is not a consistency in the explanation we have given Mr Goodwin asserts; because it would inferre a plurality yea a contrariety of wills in the same person at the same time; That there is a plurality yea a contrariety of wills in the Scripture sence of the expression of the will of a man was before from the Scripture declared; not a plurality of wills in a Physicall sence, as the will is a naturall faculty of the soule, but in a Morall and Analogicall sence as 'tis taken for a habit or principle of good or evill; The will is a naturall faculty, one nature hath one will, in every Regenerate man there are two natures, the new or divine, and the old or corrupted. In the same sence there are in him two wills as was declared; But saith he It is an impossibility of the first evidence that there should be a plurality of Acts in the same subject at the same time and these contrary one to another. But
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