A53688:1550
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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The second, The way of the Spirits return, to act in us after its motions have been rejected.
The second, The way of the Spirits returne, to act in us after its motions have been rejected.
The third endeavours a proof of the Proposition denied, That the Saints sin with their full and whole consent, by the example of David.
The third endeavours a proofe of the Proposition denied, That the Saints sinne with their full and whole consent, by the example of David.
For the first, he tells you, That the spirit acts not to the utmost efficacy of its vigour and strength, but only when his preventing motions are entertained: and Seconded, with a suitable concurrence in the hearts and wills of men: through a deficiency, and neglect whereof, he is said to be grieved, and quenched: i. e. to cease from other actings, or movings in men. This Truth, is the ground of such, and such sayings, in the sayings of Paul: for if you live after the flesh, ye shall dye: but if ye through the spirit, do mortify the deeds of the Body, ye shall live: for as many as are led by the spirit of God, they are the Sons of God, &c.
For the first, he tells you, That the spirit acts not to the utmost efficacy of its vigour and strength, but only when his preventing motions are entertained: and Seconded, with a suitable concurrence in the hearts and wills of men: through a deficiency, and neglect whereof, he is said to be grieved, and quenched: i. e. to cease from other actings, or movings in men. This Truth, is the ground of such, and such sayings, in the sayings of Paul: for if you live after the flesh, ye shall dye: but if ye through the spirit, doe mortify the deeds of the Body, ye shall live: for as many as are led by the spirit of God, they are the Sonnes of God, &c.