A53688:967
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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1. Produce some of those many Texts of Scripture, which are pregnant of this Truth.
2. Show what great things do issue from thence, and are affirmed in reference thereunto, being inferences of a supposal thereof, all conducing to the preservation of Believers, in the Love and Favour of God, unto the end. For the first, I shall refer them to 4. heads; unto 1. Promises, that he should so dwell in us. 2. Positive Affirmations that he doth so. 3. Those Texts that hold out his being distinguished from all his Graces, and Gifts, in his so doing. 4. Those that ascribe a Personality to him, in his indwelling, in us. Of each sort one, or two places may suffice.
2. Shew what great things do issue from thence, and are affirmed in reference thereunto, being inferences of a supposall thereof, all conducing to the preservation of Believers, in the Love and Favour of God, unto the end. For the first, I shall referre them to 4. heads; unto 1. Promises, that he should so dwell in us. 2. Positive Affirmations that he doth so. 3. Those Texts that hold out his being distinguished from all his Graces, and Guifts, in his so doing. 4. Those that ascribe a Personality to him, in his indwelling, in us. Of each sort one, or two places may suffice.
1. The indwelling of the Spirit is the great and solemn Promise of the Covenant of Grace; The manner of it we shall afterwards evince. Ezek. 36. 27. I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my ways; In the verse foregoing he tells them, He will give them a new heart, and a new Spirit, which, because it may be interpreted of a renewed frame of Spirit, (though it rather seems to be the renewing Spirit, that is intended as also Cap. 11. 19.) he expressly points out, and differences the Spirit he will give them, from all works of Grace whatsoever, in that Appellation of him, my Spirit, my Holy Spirit; Him will I put with in you, I will give him, or place him, in interiori vestro, in your inmost part, in your heart; or in visceribus vestris, in your bowels, (as the Soul is frequently signified by expressions of sensual things) within you. In his giving us a new heart, & new Spirit, by putting in us his Spirit, certainly more is intended then a mere working of Gracious qualities in our Hearts, by his Spirit, which he may do, & yet be no more in us, then in the greatest Blasphemers in the world. And this in the carrying of it on to its accomplishment, God calls his Covenant