A53688:293
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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As to what is on the other side affirmed,1 that Believers may fall totally, & finally away, something may be added to clear up what is intended thereby, & to enquire how it may come to pass. We do suppose (which the scripture abundantly testifieth) that such believers havea the holy Spirit dwelling in them, & by his implanting ab new holy habit of Grace: the enquiry then is how believers may come utterly to loose this holy spirit, & to be made naked of the habit of Grace, or new nature bestowed on them. That and that only whereunto this effect is ascribed is sin. Now there are two ways whereby sin may be supposed to produce such effects in reference to the Souls of Believers. 1. Efficiently by a reaction in the same subject, as frequent acts of Vice will debilitate and overthrow an acquired habit whereunto it is opposite. 2. Meritoriously, by provoking the Lord to take them away, in a way of punishment; for of all punishment sin is the morally procuring cause. Let us a little consider which of those ways it may probably be supposed that sin expels the spirit, and habit of grace from the souls of Believers.
As to what is on the other side affirmed,1 that Believers may fall totally, & finally away, something may be added to cleare up what is intended thereby, & to enquire how it may come to passe. We doe suppose (which the scripture abundantly testifieth) that such believers havea the holy Spirit dwelling in them, & by his implanting ab new holy habit of Grace: the enquiry then is how believers may come utterly to loose this holy spirit, & to be made naked of the habit of Grace, or new nature bestowed on them. That and that only whereunto this effect is ascribed is sinne. Now there are two wayes whereby sinne may be supposed to produce such effects in reference to the Soules of Believers. 1. Efficiently by a reaction in the same subject, as frequent acts of Vice will debilitate and overthrow an acquired habit whereunto it is opposite. 2. Meritoriously, by provoking the Lord to take them away, in a way of punishment; for of all punishment sinne is the morally procuring cause. Let us a little consider which of those wayes it may probably be supposed that sinne expelles the spirit, and habit of grace from the soules of Believers.