A53688:1680
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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3. That an impenitent continuance in, and under the guilt of such a sin, is a sore sign of an heart, that neither hath, nor ever had any true faith. In others, there is a truth of that of Austin, who affirmed, that he dared say, that it might be good for some, to have fallen into some eminent particular sin, for their humiliation and caution all their days.
3. That an impenitent continuance in, and under the guilt of such a sinne, is a sore signe of an heart, that neither hath, nor ever had any true faith. In others, there is a truth of that of Austin, who affirmed, that he dared say, that it might be good for some, to have fallen into some eminent particular sinne, for their humiliation and caution all their daies.
4. That this frequent conception of sin, and bringing of it forth, in persons who have been heightened by conviction to a great regularity of walking and conversation, is the means, whereby they do go forth unto that which is mentioned in the last place; which is finishing of sin; that is, so to be brought under the power of it, as to complete the whole work of sin. Now men bring it forth by the temptations, and upon the surprisals forementioned; but they that come to finish it, or do the work of it, in them it will bring forth death. This I take to be the intendment of that expression, [Greek or Hebrew], sin perfected; The word [Greek or Hebrew], is no where used in the New Testament▪ [Greek or Hebrew], & [Greek or Hebrew], are; there is [Greek or Hebrew], which is, not to do any one act which the Law requireth, but to walk studiously, and constantly, according to the rule thereof: and so [Greek or Hebrew], as the Apostle useth it Philip: 1. 6. where we translate it, as here [Greek or Hebrew]. To perfect the good work, is to walk in the way of Grace, and the Gospel, unto the end. So to perfect sin, is to fulfil the work of sin, and to walk in the way of sin, to be under the dominion and reign of sin so far, as to be carried out in a course of sinning; and this is that alone, which we exempt Believers from; which that they are exempted from, unto all that hath formerly been spoken, I shall add the consideration of one place of Scripture, being turned aside from my thoughts of handling this at large, as the second part of the Doctrine of the Saints Perseverance, the former being grown under my hands, beyond expectation.