A53688:1558
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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The ensuing discourse also is not to be passed without a little Animadversion; 1thus then he proceeds. Believers (saith he) do then mortify the deeds of the body by the spirit, when they join their Wills unto his, in his preventing motions of grace, and so draw, and obtain farther strength, and assistance from him, in order to the great, and difficult work of mortification, in respect of which concurrence also with the spirit in his first, and more gentle applications of himself to them, they are said to be led by the Spirit, as in their comportments with him, in his higher, and farther application, they become filled with the spirit, according to the expression of the Apostle, Be ye filled with the spirit, i.e. follow the spirit close in his present motions, and suggestions within you, and you shall be filled with him, i.e. ye shall find him moving and assisting you upon all occasions at a higher and more glorious rate.
The ensuing discourse also is not to be passed without a little Animadversion; 1thus then he proceeds. Believers (saith he) doe then mortify the deeds of the body by the spirit, when they joyne their Wills unto his, in his preventing motions of grace, and so draw, and obtaine farther strength, and assistance from him, in order to the great, and difficult work of mortification, in respect of which concurrence also with the spirit in his first, and more gentle applications of himselfe to them, they are said to be led by the Spirit, as in their comportments with him, in his higher, and farther application, they become filled with the spirit, according to the expression of the Apostle, Be ye filled with the spirit, i.e. follow the spirit close in his present motions, and suggestions within you, and you shall be filled with him, i.e. ye shall find him moving and assisting you upon all occasions at a higher and more glorious rate.
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