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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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After this, knowing well what Conclusion would easily be inferred from these principles, viz: That Perseverance is not really distinct from Faith and Love, that it as such a Grace, and Gift of God that who ever it's bestowed upon shall certainly persevere; namely, that every one who hath received True Grace, Faith and Love, shall certainly persevere: He objects that to himself, and plainly grants it to be so indeed, cap. 12. And to make the matter more clear, chap. 13: he disputes; that, Auxilium sine quo nullus perseverat, & per quod quilibet perseverat, est Spiritus Sanctus, Divina bonitas, & voluntas. Every Cause of bringing sinful man to God, is called by them Auxilium: in these three, Spiritus Sanctus, Divina Bonitas, & Voluntas, he compriseth the chief Causes of Perseverance, as I have also done in the ensuing Treatise. By [Divina Voluntas] he intends God's eternal, and Immutable decree, as he manifests, cap. 8.9: whither he sends his Reader. His, Divina Bonitas, is that free Grace, whereby God accepts and justifies us as his. Spirtus Sanctus, is Sanctification; So that he affirms the perseverance of the Saints to consist in the stability of their Acceptation with God, and continuance of their Sanctification from him, upon the account of his unchangeable purposes and Decrees, which is the sum of what we contend for.
After this, knowing well what Conclusion would easily be inferred from these principles, viz: That Perseverance is not really distinct from Faith and Love, that it as such a Grace, and Gift of God that who ever it's bestowed upon shall certainly persevere; namely, that every one who hath received True Grace, Faith and Love, shall certainly persevere: He objects that to himselfe, and plainly grants it to be so indeed, cap. 12. And to make the matter more cleare, chap. 13: he disputes; that, Auxilium sine quo nullus perseverat, & per quod quilibet perseverat, est Spiritus Sanctus, Divina bonitas, & voluntas. Every Cause of bringing sinful man to God, is called by them Auxilium: in these three, Spiritus Sanctus, Divina Bonitas, & Voluntas, he comprizeth the cheif Causes of Perseverance, as I have also done in the ensuing Treatise. By [Divina Voluntas] he intends God's eternal, and Immutable decree, as he manifests, cap. 8.9: whither he sends his Reader. His, Divina Bonitas, is that free Grace, whereby God accepts and justifies us as his. Spirtus Sanctus, is Sanctification; So that he affirmes the perseverance of the Saints to consist in the stability of their Acceptation with God, and continuance of their Sanctification from him, upon the account of his unchangeable purposes and Decrees, which is the summe of what we contend for.