A53688:977
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. First there are ascribed to the indwelling Spirit, in his indwelling, Personal Appellations; He that is in you, is greater then he that is in the world ([Greek or Hebrew]:) He that is in you, is a personal Denomination, which cannot be used of any Grace, or gracious habit whatsoever: so John 14 16, 17. He shall abide with you, he dwelleth with you, shall be in you, [Greek or Hebrew] John 16. 13. But when the Spirit of Truth is come, [Greek or Hebrew]. His Person is as signally designed and expressed, as in any place of Scripture to what intent or purpose soever mentioned. Neither is it possible to apprehend, that the Scripture would so often, so expressly affirm the same thing in plain proper words, if they were not to be taken, in the sense which they hold out. The main Emphasis of the Expression lies upon the Terms that are of a personal designation, and to evade the force of them by the fore mentioned distinction which they seem signally to obviate and prevent: is to say what we please, so we may oppose what pleases us not.
1. First there are ascribed to the indwelling Spirit, in his indwelling, Personal Appellations; He that is in you, is greater then he that is in the world (〈non-Latin alphabet〉:) He that is in you, is a personall Denomination, which cannot be used of any Grace, or gratious habit whatsoever: so John 14 16, 17. He shall abide with you, he dwelleth with you, shall be in you, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 John 16. 13. But when the Spirit of Truth is come, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. His Person is as signally designed and expressed, as in any place of Scripture to what intent or purpose soever mentioned. Neither is it possible to apprehend, that the Scripture would so often, so expressly affirme the same thing in plaine proper words, if they were not to be taken, in the sence which they hold out. The maine Emphasis of the Expression lyes upon the Termes that are of a personall designation, and to evade the force of them by the fore mentioned distinction which they seeme signally to obviate and prevent: is to say what we please, so we may oppose what pleases us not.