A53688:930
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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Ans. 1. This is a weighty observation: yet withal it is evident, that he opposeth the abiding of the Spirit with them as a Comforter, to his own bodily presence with them for that end. His was for a season, the other to endure for ever. And I desire to know, how our Saviour Christ comes, or enters into the souls or hearts of men, but by his Spirit: and how these things come here to be distinguished. But
Ans. 1. This is a weighty observation: yet withall it is evident, that he opposeth the abiding of the Spirit with them as a Comforter, to his owne bodily presence with them for that end. His was for a season, the other to endure for ever. And I desire to know, how our Saviour Christ comes, or enters into the soules or hearts of men, but by his Spirit: and how these things come here to be distinguished. But
2. He says By the abiding of the Comforter with them for ever, he doth not mean his perpetual abode in their hearts, or the hearts of any particular man, but his constant abiding in the world, in, and with the Gospel, and the Children thereof, in respect of which, he saith of himself elsewhere, I am with you always even to the end of the world: as if he should have said, This the purpose of my Father, in sending me into the world, requires, that I should make no long stay in it, I am now upon my return, but when I come to my Father, I will intercede for you, and he will send you another Comforter, upon better terms, for staying and continuing with you, then those on which I came: for he shall be sent, not to be taken out of the world by death, but to make his residence with, and among you my friends and faithful ones for ever; Now from such an abiding of the Holy Ghost with them, as this, cannot be inferred his perpetual abiding with any one person or Believer, determinately, much less with every one.
2. He saies By the abiding of the Comforter with them for ever, he doth not meane his perpetuall abode in their hearts, or the hearts of any particular man, but his constant abiding in the world, in, and with the Gospell, and the Children thereof, in respect of which, he saith of himselfe elswhere, I am with you alwaies even to the end of the world: as if he should have said, This the purpose of my Father, in sending me into the world, requiers, that I should make no long stay in it, I am now upon my returne, but when I come to my Father, I will intercede for you, and he will send you another Comforter, upon better termes, for staying and continuing with you, then those on which I came: for he shall be sent, not to be taken out of the world by death, but to make his residence with, and among you my friends and faithfull ones for ever; Now from such an abiding of the Holy Ghost with them, as this, cannot be inferd his perpetuall abiding with any one person or Believer, determinately, much lesse with every one.