A53688:1554
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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But then secondly; What are these first preventing motions of the spirit?1 And what is it to entertain them with a suitable concurrence of the Will? For the First, M. Goodwin tells us in this Section, they are motions of a cool and soft inspiration; such cloudy expressions, in a thing of this moment, are we forced to embrace: preventing motions of the spirit, are either Internal Physical Acts in, with, and upon the Wills of men, working in them to will and to do, (called preventing from the actings of the wills themselves) or they are Moral insinuations, and persuasions to good, according to the Analogy of the Doctrine M. Goodwin hath espoused: it is the latter only, that are here intended. The preventing motions of the spirit, are his Moral persuasions of the Will, to the good proposed to its consideration.
But then secondly; What are these first preventing motions of the spirit?1 And what is it to entertaine them with a suitable concurrence of the Will? For the First, M. Goodwin tells us in this Section, they are motions of a coole and soft inspiration; such clowdy expressions, in a thing of this moment, are we forced to embrace: preventing motions of the spirit, are either Internall Physicall Acts in, with, and upon the Wills of men, working in them to will and to doe, (called preventing from the actings of the wills themselves) or they are Morall insinuations, and perswasions to good, according to the Analogy of the Doctrine M. Goodwin hath espoused: it is the latter only, that are here intended. The preventing motions of the spirit, are his Morall perswasions of the Will, to the good proposed to its consideration.
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See then in the next place, what it is to second, & entertain these motions with a suitable concurrence in the heart and Will; Now this must be, either to yield Obedience to these motions, and to do the good persuaded unto, or something else; if any thing else, we desire to know of M. Goodwin, what it is, and wherein it consists; if it be to do the good persuaded too, then what becomes (I pray you) of those subsequent Helps, which are suspended upon this obedience, when the thing it self is already performed, which their help and assistance is required unto: They may well be called subsequent motions, which are never used nor applied, but when the things, whereunto they move, and provoke, are before hand accomplished and performed, yea they are suspended on that condition.