A53688:970
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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That the Spirit, which Christ instructs us to ask for, and which himself promiseth to send unto us, is the Holy Ghost himself, the Holy Spirit of Promise, by whom we are Sealed to the day of Redemption, I suppose will require no labour to prove: what is needful to this end, shall be afterward insisted on.
That the Spirit, which Christ instructs us to aske for, and which himselfe promiseth to send unto us, is the Holy Ghost himselfe, the Holy Spirit of Promise, by whom wee are Sealed to the day of Redemption, I suppose will require no labour to prove: what is needfull to this end, shall be afterward insisted on.
2. Positive affirmations that he doth so dwell in, 1and remain with the Saints, are the second ground of the Truth we assert; I shall name one, or two Testimonies of that kind. Psal. 51. 11. saith David, take not thy Holy Spirit from me. It is the Spirit, and his presence, as unto Sanctification, not in respect of Prophesy, or any other gift whatever, that he is treating of with God. All the Graces of the Spirit, being almost dead and buried in him, he cries aloud that He, whose they are, and who alone is able to revive and quicken them, may not be taken from him. With him, in him he was, or he could not be taken from him. And though the Gifts or Graces of the Spirit only may be intended, where mention is made of giving or bestowing of him sometimes, yet when the Saints beg of God, that he would continue his Spirit with them, though they have grieved him and provoked him, that no more is intended, but some Gift or Grace, is not so clear. I know men possessed with prejudice against this Truth, will think easily to evade these Testimonies, by the Distinction of the Person, and Graces of the Spirit. Wherefore for the manner how he is with them, with whom he is, the Apostle informs us, Rom: 8. 9. ye are in the spirit (that is, spiritual men, opposed to being in the flesh, that is, carnal, unregenerate, unreconciled, and enemies to God) if so be the spirit of Christ dwell in you: and if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his: Not only the thing it self is asserted, but the weight of our Regeneration, and Acceptation with God through Jesus Christ, is laid upon it. If the Spirit dwell in us, we are spiritual, and belong to Christ; otherwise not, we are none of his. This the Apostle farther confirms. v. 11. if the spirit of him, that raised up Jesus, dwell in you: I know not how the Person of the Holy Ghost can be more clearly deciphered, then here he is, The spirit of him that raised Jesus from the dead; Why that is mentioned, shall afterwards be considered. And this Spirit, as he bears Testimony of himself, dwells in Believers, which is all we say, and, without farther curious enquiry, desire to rest therein.