A53688:878
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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Fourthly, 1it appears from what God bestows upon his Elect, upon the Account of the undertaking of Christ for them (in the pursuit of the Eternal purpose of his Will) antecedently to any thing whatsoever in them, that should engage him to do them the least good; when God comes as a friend to hold out unto, & bestow good things upon men, (I mean) good in that kind of Mercy, which is peculiarly suited to the bringing of them to the enjoyment of himself, it is evident that he hath put an end to all enmity and quarrel between him & them:2 Now antecedently unto any thing in men, God for Christs sake bestows,3 with the greatest act of friendship imaginable,4 no less than the holy Spirit on them.5 By him they are quickened;6 & their Faith is but a fruit of that Spirit bestowed on them;7 If they have not any sufficiency in themselves, as much as to think a good thought, 8nor can do any thing, that is ⟨p. 167⟩acceptable to God, being by nature dead in trespasses and sins, which at present (the Scripture affirming it) I take for granted; then assuredly God doth give his Holy Spirit to the Saints, whereby he works in them both to will and to do of his own good pleasure, 9antecedently to any good thing in them,10 that is well pleasing unto him. Every thing that men do, must either be brought forth by the strength and Ability of their own natural faculties, assisted and provoked by motives and persuasions from without, or it must be of the operation of the Spirit of God: there is not another principle to be sixth on. The first (at present I take for granted) is not the fountain, of any Spiritual acting whatsoever: