A53688:1676
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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The next thing in the Progress of sin,1 is Lusts conceiving. When it hath turned off the heart from its Communion with God, or consideration of its duty, and entangled or hampered the Affections, in delight with the sinful object proposed, prevailing with the soul to dwell with some complacency upon the thoughts of sin, it then falleth to conceiving; that is, it warms, foments, cherisheth thoughts and delights of the sin entertained, until it so far prevail upon the will, (in them in whose wills there is an opposition unto it) that being wearied out with the solicitations of the flesh, it giveth ⟨p. 363⟩over its power, as to its actual predominant exercise, and sensibly dissenteth not, from the sin whereunto it is tempted. That this may sometimes befall a Regenerate Person, I have granted before, and what is the difference herein betwixt them, and Unregenerate persons, may be collected from what hath been already delivered.
The next thing in the Progresse of sinne,1 is Lusts conceiving. When it hath turned off the heart from its Communion with God, or consideration of its duty, and intangled or hampered the Affections, in delight with the sinfull object proposed, prevailing with the soule to dwell with some complacency upon the thoughts of sinne, it then falleth to conceiving; that is, it warmes, foments, cherisheth thoughts and delights of the sinne entertained, untill it so farre prevaile upon the will, (in them in whose wills there is an opposition unto it) that being wearied out with the sollicitations of the flesh, it giveth ⟨p. 363⟩over its power, as to its actuall predominant exercise, and sensibly dissenteth not, from the sinne whereunto it is tempted. That this may sometimes befall a Regenerate Person, I have granted before, and what is the difference herein betwixt them, and Unregenerate persons, may be collected from what hath been already delivered.
- 1§. 55.