A53688:312
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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2. Secondly, Its Universality and compass. 1It is not straitened in a corner of the soul: 'tis spread over the whole, all the faculties, affections. and passions of it. That which isa borne of the flesh is flesh: tis all flesh, and nothing but flesh; it is Darkness in the Understanding, keeping us at best that we know but in part, and are still dull and slow of heart to believe; naturally we are all Darkness,3 nothing but Darkness, and though the Lord, shine into our mind, to give us in some measure the knowledge of his Glory in the face of Jesus Christ, 4yet we are still very dark, & it is a hard work to bring in a little Light,5 upon the soul; especially this is seen in particular practical things; though in General, 6we have very clear light and eviction, yet when we come to particular Acts of obedience.7 How often doth our light grow dim and fails us, causing us to judge amiss of that which is before us,8 by the rising of that natural darkness, which is in us? It is perverseness, stubbornness, obstinacy in the Will, 9that carries it with violence, to disobedience and sin. It is sensuality upon the Affections, 10bending them to the things of the World, alienating them from God;11 It is slipperiness in the memory, making us like leaking vessels,