A53688:1539
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. If you intend acts in a Moral Consideration, unless you add about the same Object which you do not, this Assertion is so far from any evidence of truth that it is ridiculously false; May not the same person love God and hate the Devil at the same time. But
1. If you intend acts in a Morall Consideration, unlesse you adde about the same Object which you do not, this Assertion is so farre from any evidence of truth that it is ridiculously false; May not the same person love God and hate the Divell at the same time. But
2. How pass you so suddenly from a plurality of wills to a plurality of acts; by the will we intend in the sense wherein we speak of it an habit, not any act; i.e. The will as habitually invested with a new principle & not as actually willing from thence, & by virtue thereof; Arminius from whom our Author borrows this Discourse fell not into this Sophistry, he tells you There cannot be contrary wills or volitions about the same Act; But is it with M.G. or Arminius an impossibility that there should be a mixed action partly voluntary, & partly involuntary; actions whose principles are from without by persuasion may be so, a mans throwing his goods in the Sea to save his own life; Now the principles whereof we speak Flesh & Grace are internal & contrary, & shall not the actions that proceed from a faculty wherein such contrary principles have their residence, be partly voluntary, partly involuntary.
2. How passe you so suddenly from a plurality of wills to a plurality of acts; by the will we intend in the sence wherein we speak of it an habit, not any act; i.e. The will as habitually invested with a new principle & not as actually willing from thence, & by vertue thereof; Arminius from whom our Author borrowes this Discourse fell not into this Sophystry, he tels you There cannot be contrary wills or volitions about the same Act; But is it with M.G. or Arminius an impossibility that there should be a mixt action partly voluntary, & partly involuntary; actions whose principles are from without by perswasion may be so, a mans throwing his goods in the Sea to save his owne life; Now the principles whereof we speak Flesh & Grace are internall & contrary, & shall not the actions that proceed from a faculty wherein such contrary principles have their residence, be partly voluntary, partly involuntary.