A53688:1762
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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Thirdly,1 That there is an inconsistency between Promises and Precepts, in reference to the same Object; that God should promise to work any thing effectually in us, and yet require it of us, is thought ridiculous, and on this account the great folly here imputed to the discourse framed for the Holy Ghost, is proposed to consist in this, that God should exhort us, to watch against the assaults of the Devil, and yet promise that by his Grace, he will effectually work in us, & for us, the very same thing; A supposal destructive to the whole nature of the New-Covenant, easily disproved by innumerable instances.
Thirdly,1 That there is an inconsistency between Promises and Precepts, in reference to the same Object; that God should promise to worke any thing effectually in us, and yet require it of us, is thought ridiculous, and on this account the great folly here imputed to the discourse framed for the Holy Ghost, is proposed to consist in this, that God should exhort us, to watch against the assaults of the Divell, and yet promise that by his Grace, he will effectually work in us, & for us, the very same thing; A supposall destructive to the whole nature of the New-Covenant, easily disproved by innumerable instances.
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Fourthly,1 That Believers are to be wrought upon to obedience always, whatever the frame of their spirits be, by the same ways and means; Thence 'tis that promises, promises of highest and greatest assurance, are ⟨p. 383⟩in this discourse, coupled with cautions of the deepest charge, as though they must at the same time operate the same way to Believers, or else the Holy-Ghost be liable to be traduced, as inconsistent with himself. When the great variety that is in their spiritual frame and temper, the manifold Temptations wherewith they are assaulted, the Light and Dark places they walk through &c. give occasion sufficient to the exercising towards them, all the piping and mourning that is provided for them.