A53688:263
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, in the testimony that it doth give from its walking with God, and the fruits of Righteousness, it is very far and remote from giving it only or chiefly, 1or indeed at all, from those ways, works, and fruits which are exposed to the eyes of men,2 and which, in others, they who have that Testimony, may behold.3 It resolves it self herein in the frame, principles, and life of the hidden man of the heart, 4which lies open and naked to the eyes of God,5 but is lodged in depths not to be fathomed by any of the Sons of Men:6 There is ⟨p. 7⟩no comparison to be instituted between the obedience and fruits of Righteousness in others, whereby a believer makes a judgement of them, and that in himself from whence the testimony mentioned doth flow: that of other men being their visibly practical conversation, his being the hidden habitual frame of his heart and spirit in his ways and actings; so that though through the fallings of them, he should be occasioned to question his own faith, as to trial and examination; yet nothing can thence arise sufficient to enforce him to let go even that part of his comfort, which flows from the weakest witness, and one of the lowest voices of all his store. He eyes others without doors, but himself within.
Thirdly, in the testimony that it doth give from its walking with God, and the fruits of Righteousnesse, it is very farre and remote from giving it only or chiefly, 1or indeed at all, from those waies, workes, and fruits which are exposed to the eyes of men,2