A53688:962
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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CAP. VIII.
1. Entrance into the Digression concerning the Indwelling of the Spirit. The manner of the abode of the Spirit with them, on whom he is bestowed. Grounds of the Demonstrations of the Truth. 2. The Indwelling of the Spirit proved from the Promises of it. 3. Express affirmations of the same Truth. Psal. 51. 11. Rom. 8. 9. opened. v. 11, 15. 1 Cor. 2. 12. Gal. 4. 6. opened. 1 Tim. 3. 14. 4. The Spirit in his Indwelling, distinguished from all his Graces. Evasions removed. Rom. 5. 5. Explained. The Holy Ghost himself, not the Grace of the Holy Ghost there intended. Rom 8. 11. opened: Gal: 5. 22. 5. A Personality ascribed to the Spirit in his Indwellings. (1) In personal Appellations. 1 Joh. 4. 5. Joh. 14. 19, 17. (2.) Personal Operations. Rom. 8. 11, 15. explained. (3.) Personal circumstances. The Spirit dwells in the Saints, as in a Temple. 1 Cor. 3. 16. Ch. 6. 9. 6. The Indwelling of the Spirit farther Demonstrated, from the signal Effects ascribed in the Scripture to his so doing: as (1) Union with Christ. 7. Union with Christ wherein it consisteth. 8. Union with Christ by the Indwelling of the same Spirit in him, and us. 9. This proved from, (1.) Scriptural Declarations of it: