A53688:975
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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Let us know what that Grace is, that hath this power & energy in its hand, of shedding abroad the Love of God in our Hearts. So Rom. 8. 11. He shall quicken your mortal bodies by the Spirit, that dwelleth in you. This quickening of our mortal bodies is generally confessed to be (and the scope of the place enforceth ⟨p. 192⟩that sense) our Spiritual quickening in our mortal bodies: mention being made of our bodies, in Analogy to the body of Christ: by his death, we have life, and quickening. Doubtless then it is a Grace of the Spirit that is intended. Yea the habitual principle of all Graces. And this is wrought in us by the Spirit that dwelleth in us. There is not any Grace of the Spirit whereby he may dwell in men, antecedent to his Quickening of them. Spiritual Graces, have not their residence in dead souls. So that this must be the Spirit himself dwelling in us, that is here intended, and that personally: or the sense of the words must be, The Grace of quickening our mortal bodies, is wrought in us, by the Grace of Quickening our mortal bodies that dwells in us: which is plainly to confound the Cause and Effect; Besides it is the same Spirit that raised up Jesus from the dead, that is intended, which doubtless was not any inherent Grace, but the Spirit of God himself, working by the exceeding greatness of his Power. Thus much is hence cleared. Antecedent in order of nature to our Quickening, there is a Spirit given to us, to dwell in us. Every efficient Cause hath at least the precedency of its effect. No Grace of the Spirit is bestowed on us before our Quickening, which is, the preparation, and fitting of the subject for the receiving of them; the planting of the Root that contains them virtually, and brings them forth actually in their order. Gal. 5. 22. All Graces whatsoever come under the name of the fruit of the Spirit: that is, which the Spirit in us brings forth, as the Root doth the fruit, which in its so doing, is distinct therefrom. Many other instances might be given, but these may suffice.
Let us know what that Grace is, that hath this power & energie in its hand, of shedding abroad the Love of God in our Hearts. So Rom. 8. 11. He shall quicken your mortall bodyes by the Spirit, that dwelleth in you. This quickning of our mortall bodies is generally confessed to be (and the scope of the place inforceth