A53688:1678
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. 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.
2. That God never suffereth his Saints to fall thus, but it is for the accomplishment of some very glorious end of his, in their afflictions, trials, patience, humiliation, which he will bring about. These ends of God are many and various: I shall not enter into a particular discourse concerning them.
2. That God never suffereth his Saints to fall thus, but it is for the accomplishment of some very glorious end of his, in their afflictions, trialls, patience, humiliation, which he will bring about. These ends of God are many and various: I shall not enter into a particular discourse concerning them.