A53688:332
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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3. Thirdly, it is utterly denied, that Men, the Best of Men, have in themselves and of themselves, arising upon the account of any Considerations whatsoever, a Power, Ability, or Strength, vigorously or at all acceptably to God, to incline their Hearts to the performance of any thing that is spiritually good, or in a Gospel tendency to walking with God; All the Promises of ⟨p. 27⟩God, all the Prayers of the Saints, all their Experience, the whole design of God in laying up all our stores of Strength and Grace in Christ, jointly cry out against it, for a counterfeit pretence. In a word, that men are able to plant in themselves Inclinations and Dispositions to refrain all manner of Sin destructive to the safety of their souls, fuller of Energy, Vigour, Life, Strength, Power, then those that are in them, to avoid things Apparently tending to the destruction of their natural lives, is an Assertion as full of Energy, Strength, and Vigour, Life and Poison, for the destruction and eversion of the Grace of God in Christ, as any can be invented.
3. Thirdly, it is utterly denied, that Men, the Best of Men, have in themselves and of themselves, arising upon the account of any Considerations whatsoever, a Power, Ability, or Strength, vigorously or at all acceptably to God, to incline their Hearts to the performance of any thing that is spiritually good, or in a Gospell tendency to walking with God; All the Promises of ⟨p. 27⟩