A53688:1548
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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Fourthly, The sum is, If the Spirit and the flesh, Lust and Grace, may be looked on as habitual qualities and principles in the wills of the same persons so that though a man hath but one will, yet by reason of these contrary qualities, He is to be esteemed as two diverse principles of operation, it is evident that having contrary inclinations continually, the will hath in its actings a Relation to both these principles, so that no sin is committed by such an one with his whole will and full consent; That contrary qualities in a Remiss degree may be in the same subject is known, Lippis & Tonsoribus; These adverse principles the Flesh and Spirit, are as those contrary qualities of the same subject; and the inclinations, yea and the elicit acts of the will, are of the same nature with them; so that in the same act they may both be working though not with equal efficacy. Notwithstanding any thing then said to the contrary, ⟨p. 333⟩it appears that in the sins which the Saints fall into, they do not sin with their whole wills and full consent; which of it self is a sufficient Answer to the foregoing Argument.
Fourthly, The summe is, If the Spirit and the flesh, Lust and Grace, may be lookt on as habituall qualityes and principles in the wills of the same persons so that though a man hath but one will, yet by reason of these contrary qualityes, He is to be esteemed as two diverse principles of operation, it is evident that having contrary inclinations continually, the will hath in its actings a Relation to both these principles, so that no sinne is commited by such an one with his whole will and full consent; That contrary qualityes in a Remisse degree may be in the same subject is knowne, Lippis & Tonsoribus; These adverse principles the Flesh and Spirit, are as those contrary qualityes of the same subject; and the inclinations, yea and the elicite acts of the will, are of the same nature with them; so that in the same act they may both be working though not with equall efficacy. Notwithstanding any thing then said to the contrary, ⟨p. 333⟩it appeares that in the sinnes which the Saints fall into, they do not sinne with their whole wills and full consent; which of it selfe is a sufficient Answer to the foregoing Argument.