A53688:1541
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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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.
First though this were so, yet this doth not prove but that the Action is mixed and not absolutely and wholly voluntary; Mixed Actions are so esteemed from the antecedent deliberation and dissent, though the will be at length prevailed upon thereunto, and I have showed before that in the very action there is a virtual dissent, because of the opposite principle that is in the will. But
First though this were so, yet this doth not prove but that the Action is mixt and not absolutely and wholly voluntary; Mixt Actions are so esteemed from the antecedent deliberation and dissent, though the will be at length prevailed upon thereunto, and I have shewed before that in the very action there is a vertuall dissent, because of the opposite principle that is in the will. But
Secondly, How doth it appear that the Spirit doth not lust against the flesh though not to a prevalency even in the exertion of the acts of sin; In every good act that a man doth, because evil is present with him, though the prevalency be of the part of the Spirit, and the principle of Grace, yet the flesh also with its lustings doth always in part corrupt it; Thence are all the spots, stains, and imperfections of the holy things and duties of the Saints; and if the flesh in its lusting will immix it self with our good Actions to their defilement ⟨p. 332⟩