A53688:1561
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 Secondly,1 to Answer the first and gentle motions of the spirit, is to be led by him, and then we shall be filled by the spirit; But how doth M. Goodwin prove, that to be led by the spirit, is to answer his first gentle motions, and thereby to obtain his farther, and more glorious actings and persuasions? Is it safe, thus to make bold with the word of God? or is not this to wrest it, as ignorant, and unstable men do unto perdition? Saints, being led by the spirit of God, and walking after the spirit, are in Rom: 8. expressions of that Effectual sanctification exerting it self in their conversation, and walking with God, which the spirit of God worketh in them, and which is their duty, to come up unto, in opposition to living, or walking after the flesh. If this now be attained, and the Saints come up unto it, antecedently to the subsequent Grace of the Spirit, what is that subsequent grace, which is so gloriously expressed, and wherein doth it consist? Neither doth that expression of led by the Spirit, hold out the concurrence, or comportment of their Wills, as it is phrased, with the gentle motion of the spirit, but the powerful and effectual Operation of the spirit, as to their Holiness, and walking with God; [Greek or Hebrew], is not, they comport, or concur with the Spirit in his motions, but by the spirit, they are acted, and carried out to the things of God: Neither hath this any relation to, or coherence with that of the Ephesians 5. 18. %Be filled with the spirit, neither is there any such intendment in the expression, as is here intimated of a promise of receiving more of the spirit, on condition of that compliance, concurrence, and comportance with his motions, as is intimated. That the spirit is sometimes taken for his Graces, sometimes for his Gifts, habitually, sometimes for his actual operations, is known; The Apostle in that place dissuading the Ephesians from turning aside to such carnal, sinful Refreshments, as men of the world went out unto, bids them, not be drunk with Wine, wherein is excess, but to be filled with the Spirit: to take their refreshment in the joys of the spirit, speaking to themselves in Psalms and Hymns and spiritual Songs, v. ⟨p. 336⟩20. Could I once imagine that M.
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