A53688:980
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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And this is our first manifestation of the Truth concerning the Indwelling of the Spirit in the Saints from the Scripture. The second will be from the signal Issues, and benefits, which are asserted to arise from this indwelling of the Spirit in them, of which I shall give sundry instances.
And this is our first manifestation of the Truth concerning the Indwelling of the Spirit in the Saints from the Scripture. The second will be from the signall Issues, and benefits, which are asserted to arise from this indwelling of the Spirit in them, of which I shall give sundry instances.
1. The first signal Issue and Effect which is ascribed to this Indwelling of the Spirit,1 is Union; not a Personal Union with himself, which is impossible: He doth not assume our natures, and so prevent our Personality, which would make us one Person with him, but dwells in our Persons, keeping his own, and leaving us our Personality infinitely distinct; But it is a spiritual Union; the great Union mentioned so often in the Gospel, that is the sole fountain of our Blessedness; our Union with the Lord Christ, which we have thereby.
1. The first signall Issue and Effect which is ascribed to this Indwelling of the Spirit,1 is Union; not a Personall Union with himselfe, which is impossible: He doth not assume our natures, and so prevent our Personality, which would make us one Person with him, but dwells in our Persons, keeping his owne, and leaving us our Personality infinitely distinct; But it is a spirituall Union; the great Union mentioned so often in the Gospell, that is the sole fountain of our Blessednesse; our Union with the Lord Christ, which we have thereby.
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