A53688:1579
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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Fourthly it appears then that this being the description of a Regenerate man, which the Apostle gives, as to indwelling sin, and all the fruits thereof, that it is most ridiculous to exempt his frame in respect of such sins as they may fall into by surprisals of temptations, from this description of him, and so to frame this distinction to the Apostles general Rule, that it holds in cases ordinary, but not in extraordinary, when nothing in the whole Context gives the least allowance or continuance to such a limitation.
Fourthly it appeares then that this being the description of a Regenerate man, which the Apostle gives, as to indwelling sinne, and all the fruits thereof, that it is most ridiculous to exempt his frame in respect of such sinnes as they may fall into by surprisalls of temptations, from this description of him, and so to frame this distinction to the Apostles generall Rule, that it holds in cases ordinary, but not in extraordinary, when nothing in the whole Context gives the least allowance or continuance to such a limitation.
It appears then notwithstanding any thing offered here to the contrary, upon due consideration of it, that Believers sin not with their whole wills and full consents; at any time,1 nor under the power of what temptation soever they may fall for a season, and that because of the Residence of this principle of a contrary tendency unto sin in their wills which is always acting, either directly in inclining unto good, or in taking off, or making remiss the consent of the will to sin, not withstanding the prevalency of the principle opposite thereunto, by its committing of sin.
It appears then notwithstanding any thing offered here to the contrary, upon due consideration of it, that Believers sinne not with their whole wills and full consents; at any time,1 nor under the power of what temptation soever they may fall for a season, and that because of the Residence of this principle of a contrary tendency unto sinne in their wills which is allwayes acting, either directly in inclining unto good, or in taking off, or making remisse the consent of the will to sinne, not withstanding the prevalency of the principle opposite thereunto, by its committing of sinne.