A53688:969
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. 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 Isa. 59. 21. This is my Covenant with them, saith the Lord, my Spirit that is upon thee, shall not depart from thee: upon thee, in thee, that dwells in thee, as was promised. And this Promise is evidently renewed by the Lord Christ to his Disciples, clearly also interpreting what that Spirit is, which is mentioned in the Promise of the Covenant, Luk. 11. 13. Your Heavenly Father will give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him, of him; that is, that pray to him for the Holy Spirit. Our Saviour instructs his Disciples to ask the Holy Spirit of God, upon the account of his being so promised, as Acts 2. 23. ⟨p. 190⟩All our supplications are to be regulated by the Promise. And surely he, who (as shall afterwards appear) did so plentifully,1 and richly Promise the bestowing of this Spirit on all those, that believe on him, did not instruct them to ask for any inferior Mercy, and Grace, under that name. That Spirit which the Lord Christ instructs us to ask of the Father, is the Spirit, which he hath promised to bestow so on us, as that he shall dwell in us.