A53688:1669
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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1. The main of a true Believers watching in his whole life,1 and in the course of his walking with God, is directed against this off-drawing from that habitual frame of his heart by lust and sin. His great business is, as the Apostle telleth us, to take the whole armour of God to him, that sin if it be possible, may make no approach to his soul. Eph. 6. 13. It is to keep up their spirits to a hate of every evil way and to delight in God continually; and because they cannot attain in this life unto perfection, they cry out of the power of sin leading them captives to the Law thereof. They would have their wills dead to sin, wholly dead, and have trouble that they are not so, as to the general frame of of their spirits how oft so ever they be drawn off. For other persons they have truly no such frame at all, whatever they may be cut into the likeness of, by the sharpness of Scriptural convictions that come upon them; and therefore they watch not, as to the keeping of it. The deeper you dive into them, the more near you come to their hearts, the worse they are: their very inward parts is wickedness, I speak now of the ordinary frame of the one and other.
1. The maine of a true Believers watching in his whole life,1 and in the course of his walking with God, is directed against this off-drawing from that habituall frame of his heart by lust and sinne. His great businesse is, as the Apostle telleth us, to take the whole armour of God to him, that sinne if it be possible, may make no approach to his soule. Eph. 6. 13. It is to keepe up their spirits to a hate of every evill way and to delight in God continually; and because they cannot attaine in this life unto perfection, they cry out of the power of sin leading them captives to the Law thereof. They would have their wills dead to sinne, wholly dead, and have trouble that they are not so, as to the generall frame of of their spirits how oft so ever they be drawne off. For other persons they have truly no such frame at all, whatever they may be cut into the likenesse of, by the sharpnesse of Scripturall convictions that come upon them; and therefore they watch not, as to the keeping of it. The deeper you dive into them, the more neere you come to their hearts, the worse they are: their very inward parts is wickednesse, I speak now of the ordinary frame of the one and other.