A53688:1566
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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What else remains in this Section,1 either doth not concern the business in hand, as the fine notions of the Spirits return to move Believers when his motions have been rejected, with the manner, whereof according to his conception, must be afterwards considered apart, as the fall of David into Adultery and Murder; if there be need to go forth to the consideration of his examples and instances: and therefore I shall not longer insist upon it; only the close of it consisting of an inference made from some words of Peter Martyr deserves consideration; Upon Davids sin (saith he) Peter Martyr, makes this observation, That the Saints themselves being once fallen into sin, would always remain in the pollution of it, did not God by his mighty Word bring them out of it; which saying of Martyr clearly also implies that the Saints many times sin with their whole wills and full consents, because were any part of their wills bent against the committing of the sin at the time, when it is committed, they would questionless return to themselves and repent immediately after the beat and violence of the Lust being over, by reason of the satisfaction that hath been given thereunto.
What else remaines in this Section,1 either doth not concerne the businesse in hand, as the fine notions of the Spirits returne to move Believers when his motions have been rejected, with the manner, whereof according to his conception, must be afterwards considered apart, as the fall of David into Adultery and Murther; if there be need to go forth to the consideration of his examples and instances: and therefore I shall not longer insist upon it; only the close of it consisting of an inference made from some words of Peter Martyr deserves consideration; Vpon Davids sinne (saith he) Peter Martyr, makes this observation, That the Saints themselves being once fallen into sinne, would alwayes remaine in the pollution of it, did not God by his mighty Word bring them out of it; which saying of Martyr clearely also implyes that the Saints many times sinne with their whole wills and full consents, because were any part of their wills bent against the commiting of the sinne at the time, when it is committed, they would questionlesse returne to themselves and repent immediately after the beat and violence of the Lust being over, by reason of the satisfaction that hath been given thereunto.