A53688:1677
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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Of the next step of sin,1 which is, its bringing forth, or the actual accomplishment of the sin so conceived as above expressed, there is the same Reason. [Greek or Hebrew], it bringeth out of its womb, the Child of sin, which it had conceived; it is the actual perpetration of sin formerly consented unto, that is expressed under this Metaphor. I have little to add upon this head, to what was formerly spoken. For,
Of the next step of sinne,1 which is, its bringing forth, or the actuall accomplishment of the sinne so conceived as above expressed, there is the same Reason. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, it bringeth out of its wombe, the Child of sinne, which it had conceived; it is the actuall perpetration of sinne formerly consented unto, that is expressed under this Metaphor. I have little to adde upon this head, to what was formerly spoken. For,
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1. As they are not the sins of daily infirmities that are here intended, in the place of the Apostle under consideration, but such as lye in an immediate tendency unto Death, as to their eminent guilt; as also being the fruit of the hearts conception of sin, by fomenting and warming thoughts of sin, with delight, until consent unto it be prevalent in the soul, so falls of this nature in the Saints, are extraordinary, and alway attended with their loss of peace, the weakening of their Faith, wounding of their souls, and obnoxiousness, without Repentance unto death. God indeed, hath provided better things for them, but for themselves, they have done their endeavour, to destroy their own souls.
1. As they are not the sinnes of daily infirmities that are here intended, in the place of the Apostle under consideration, but such as lye in an immediate tendency unto Death, as to their eminent guilt; as also being the fruit of the hearts conception of sinne, by fomenting and warming thoughts of sinne, with delight, untill consent unto it be prevalent in the soule, so falls of this nature in the Saints, are extraordinary, and alway attended with their losse of peace, the weakeneng of their Faith, wounding of their soules, and obnoxiousnesse, without Repentance unto death. God indeed, hath provided better things for them, but for themselves, they have done their endeavour, to destroy their own soules.