A53688:1563
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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Thirdly he concludes That the reason why Believers are overcome by the Lustings of the flesh is not because the Spirit is not stronger than the flesh, but because men have more will to hearken to the Lusts of the Flesh, than to the Spirit.
Thirdly he concludes That the reason why Believers are overcome by the Lustings of the flesh is not because the Spirit is not stronger than the flesh, but because men have more will to harken to the Lusts of the Flesh, than to the Spirit.
Fortunam Priami cantabo, & nobile bellum.
This is the issue of all the former swelling Discourse, mens sins are from their own wills, and not because the Spirit is not stronger than the flesh; And who ever doubted it, the Conclusion you were to prove, is, That Believers sin with their whole will and full consent of their wills, and that the new principle that is in them, doth not cause their wills to decline from acting in sin to the just efficacy of all their strength and vigour; But of this [Greek or Hebrew], for the insinuation in that expression of the Will hearkening to the lusts of the flesh, and not the lusting of the Spirit, in a sovereign indifferency to both, and a liberty for the performance of either, in a way exclusive of good, or vicious habitual Principles of operation in the will it self, I shall not now divert to the consideration of.
This is the issue of all the former swelling Discourse, mens sinnes are from their owne willes, and not because the Spirit is not stronger than the flesh; And who ever doubted it, the Conclusion you were to prove, is, That Believers sinne with their whole will and full consent of their wills, and that the new principle that is in them, doth not cause their wills to decline from acting in sinne to the just efficacy of all their strength and vigour; But of this , for the insinuation in that expression of the Will hearkening to the lusts of the flesh, and not the lusting of the Spirit, in a sovereigne indifferency to both, and a liberty for the performance of either, in a way exclusive of good, or vicious habituall Principles of operation in the will it selfe, I shall not now divert to the consideration of.