A53688:1540
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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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.
3. But he tells you, That though there might be lusting of the Spirit against the flesh before the act of sin, yet when it comes to the acting of it then it ceaseth & so the act is wrought with the whole will.
3. But he tells you, That though there might be lusting of the Spirit against the flesh before the act of sinne, yet when it comes to the acting of it then it ceaseth & so the act is wrought with the whole will.